Centennial – The mother of a boy who lost an arm after he was mauled by three dogs in his back yard was given a 4-year suspended sentence today after pleading guilty to child abuse.
Renee Muniz, 37, will also serve four years’ probation at the same time for cruelty to animals.
Three pit bulls attacked her 10-year-old son, Gregg Jones, in November 2004 when he returned home from school. Neighbors who heard his screams drove the dogs away with a bat and sticks.
The dogs bit Gregg on his head, throat, legs and arms. His left arm was amputated and he underwent facial reconstruction surgery during a hospital stay that lasted almost a month.
In exchange for Muniz’s guilty plea on two charges, prosecutors dropped a second child-abuse count and a charge of owning a dangerous dog.
Muniz was shot and critically wounded in December when she and a man accompanied a woman who was retrieving her belongings after a dispute with her boyfriend, police said.
The man was also wounded, but less severely.
Thomas Charles Taylor, 25, was charged with attempted first-degree murder and other counts in that case. Police said the shootings were not related to the mauling.
