Portland Woman Gets Maximum Sentence After 6-Year-Old Is Killed in Dog Attack
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland woman will serve the maximum prison sentence for criminally negligent homicide related to the death of a six-year-old mauled by her two Great Dane-Mastiffs.
Loyalty Scott lost his life after the 20-minute attack in the garage of Koko Miller’s Northeast Portland home.
According to the Oregon District Attorney’s Office, Miller was babysitting the boy for her next-door neighbor and close friend when the incident occurred on December 5, 2023.
The 57-year-old was sentenced in the Multnomah County Circuit Court to the maximum sentence of two years and two months in prison. Miller was found guilty of four felony charges, including criminally negligent homicide.
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Criminally negligent homicide means prosecutors proved a death resulted from a gross failure to recognize a serious risk, not from an intent to kill.
Both dogs involved in the attack were euthanized.
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The judge gave the maximum 26 month sentence after Miller was convicted of four felonies tied to the fatal dog attack.