{"id":182689,"date":"2026-03-08T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182689\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:22:08","slug":"florida-woman-mauled-by-7-dogs-in-front-of-sex-offenders-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182689\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman mauled by 7 dogs in front of sex offender&#8217;s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida woman was mauled by seven dogs in front of a<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/04\/us-news\/registered-sex-offender-holds-press-conference-near-school\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> registered sex offender\u2019s home<\/a> as neighbors looked on in horror, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The victim \u2014 who survived \u2014 was instantly trampled as the dogs tore into her flesh while she was face down on the ground outside Edward Hayes\u2019 Dade City home, neighbor Lourdes Estrada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/1-critically-injured-pasco-county-animal-attack-involving-7-dogs-pcfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told Fox 13<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was terrifying. I was shocked and freaked out,\u201d Estrada, who dialed 911 after the horrifying incident, told the outlet. \u201cI had never seen anything like that before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayes tried in vain, Estrada told the station, to pull the savage pets off the woman, who was airlifted from the grim scene in critical condition around 11 a.m. by Pasco County Fire Rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was attacked when she approached the Fiesta Drive home to speak with Hayes \u2014 and his pets came rushing out, a source told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All seven dogs were taken into custody by Pasco County Animal Services, according to the County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\u00a0It is unclear what breed they are.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38707550\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/crop-38707545.jpg\" alt=\"A fence with a dog warning sign on it.\" class=\"wp-image-38707550\"  \/>A woman was left in critical condition after being mauled by seven dogs on Friday.  FOX 13 News<\/p>\n<p>Various neighbors told Fox 13 that this is not the first time dogs at Hayes\u2019 property have lashed out, and said they have notified police of their concerns in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.03018109;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38707544\" width=\"608\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dog-owner-howard-hayes-woman-123011630.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of Howard taken in 2024.\" class=\"wp-image-38707544\"  \/>According to public records, Howard Edward Hayes is a registered sex offender.  FDLE<\/p>\n<p>No charges had been filed in the dog attack as of Saturday afternoon, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes was convicted of Lewd or lascivious exhibition with the victim being under 16 years old in 2000,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/offender.fdle.state.fl.us\/offender\/sops\/offenderSearch.jsf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the state\u2019s registry<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A list <a href=\"https:\/\/data.newsherald.com\/sex-offenders\/pasco\/school\/510031\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">compiled by the News Herald <\/a>reveals Hayes lives just 2.1 miles away from Pasco Middle School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hayes and Pasco County Animal Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Pasco County Fire Rescue spokesperson said they could not provide more information amid the ongoing investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida woman was mauled by seven dogs in front of a registered sex offender\u2019s home as neighbors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15288,1827,28,30,29,27135,4278],"class_list":["post-182689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-attack","tag-dog","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-sex-offenders","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}