The Pensacola girl charged with manslaughter in May after he dogs mauled a person to dying pleaded no contest to the cost on Tuesday and acquired two-and-a-half years in jail.
Circuit Judge Coleman Robinson sentenced 36-year-old Kathleen Taylor to over 30 months in Florida’s Department of Corrections Oct. 18 after she pleaded no contest to second-degree felony manslaughter admitting her dogs killed 63-year-old Nathaniel Posey in February.
The Office of the State Attorney’s charging doc says that Taylor failed “to correctly safe her dogs that she knew to will be apt for violence” on Feb. 24, 2023, the day Posey died from the attack.
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After serving her jail sentence, Taylor will serve a further two years on probation and can’t personal any family pets, per the plea supply.
On April 17, Taylor was additionally discovered to be in possession of methamphetamine. She was additionally sentenced to over 30 months in jail for the drug cost, however it would run concurrent to the primary sentence, not lengthening her incarceration time.
What occurred on Feb. 24, 2023?
During a May press convention the place Escambia Sheriff Chip Simmons introduced Taylor’s arrest, the county’s animal welfare division Director John Robinson stated Taylor didn’t safe her dogs’ kennels and different enclosures meant to maintain the animals on the property.
When the three dogs escaped the Norris Avenue home, they attacked and bit Posey to dying on the street. Simmons stated he was pronounced useless on scene because of a number of head and torso accidents.
Robinson additionally stated that animal management acquired quite a few requires service for her animals chasing folks and wandering by means of the road.
“We have a variety of roaming calls, we name them nuisance calls, the place the animals might have been chasing folks and issues like that,” Robinson stated in May. “She does not have the correct housing and clearly does not have the correct look after them.”
One of Taylor’s dogs was euthanized after she surrendered possession after the incident. The News Journal reached out to Escambia County to see if the opposite two dogs have been euthanized, however haven’t but acquired a solution.
