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Owner Of Killer Pit Bulls Turns Herself In

McCune Misses Wednesday Date To Report For Prison

POSTED: 1:34 pm MST January 6, 2005
UPDATED: 4:56 pm MST January 6, 2005

The woman whose pit bulls mauled an Elbert County woman to death was supposed to turn herself in Wednesday to begin serving a six-year prison sentence, but she waited until Thursday afternoon to do it.

Jackie McCuen pleaded guilty to being the owner of a dangerous dog, causing death.

An arrest warrant was issued for Jacqueline McCuen, 33, on Wednesday after she failed to show. The warrant was rescinded after she turned herself in.

McCuen was sentenced last month after pleading guilty to one of two felonies and two misdemeanors. She entered a guilty plea as part of an agreement with prosecutors that cut her maximum penalty in half.

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 estranged husband, William Gladney, is scheduled to go to trial on Jan. 18 on similar charges.


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