A 30-year-old San Diego woman was sentenced Thursday to 365 days in jail after pleading guilty to child endangerment in the fatal mauling of her 2-year-old son by the family dog.
Valerie Grace Carlson will get credit for the 313 days she has been in jail since being arrested and thus will be free within weeks, officials said.
Carlson had passed out after a late night of heavy drinking when the German shepherd mauled her son Aaron, according to court documents.
Three other children were asleep in the house in the Tierrasanta neighborhood. Carlson's husband, who is in the military, was forward deployed.
Paramedics came to the home near noon on July 31, 2010. The child was pronounced dead at Rady Children's Hospital; the dog was later killed.
According to prosecutors, Carlson said she usually put the dog in a crate at night but had failed to do so because she was too tired.
Along with the jail sentence imposed in San Diego County Superior Court, Carlson was sentenced to five years’ probation and will be permitted to move to Colorado to be near her family.
After the toddler's death, county officials removed the three other children from the home; the children's father now has custody, officials said.
--Tony Perry in San Diego
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