The woman whose pit bulls mauled an Elbert County woman to death was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday.

Jacqueline McCuen, 33, pleaded guilty earlier to one of two felonies and two misdemeanors as part of an agreement with prosecutors to cut her maximum penalty in half.

Prosecutors said McCuen's three pit bulls escaped her property and attacked Jennifer Brooke, 40, last November. Brooke was feeding her horses on the morning of Nov. 20 when she was so brutally mauled that not even the baseball bat she had with her could have saved her from the dogs, authorities said.

Two other people -- Brooke's husband and her neighbor -- were also injured before the dogs were shot and killed.

Neighbors said that McCuen's dogs were aggressive and always managed to get out around the neighborhood. The dogs had attacked a jogger seven months before Brooke's death, prosecutors said.

Many deputies said that Brooke's mauled body was one of the most gruesome things they had ever seen. Eight firemen had to be counseled after they responded to the scene.

McCuen's boyfriend, William Gladney, is scheduled to go to trial on Jan. 18.