Luling Women Sentenced to Jail for Son's Death
Two-year old Tyson Miller was found in his backyard in a Luling, Texas in March 2009 mauled to death by a pit bull chained yard. An autopsy showed that Tyson had died from severe trauma to the head and neck that caused him to bleed to death.
Tyson's mother, Melissa Miller, has been sentenced to two years in state jail. Miller, 24, and several other adults in a house trailer did not notice the missing boy until waking up after noon. She pleaded no contest to charges of criminally negligent homicide last September. The prosecution agreed to drop charges of injury to a child.
During her first sentencing date in November, the judge ordered Miller be submit to a drug test, which she failed. She admitted to having smoked marijuana and was detained for violating terms of her pre-trial release.
The Caldwell County District Attorney had asked the judge for the maximum penalty of two years in jail, saying that the incident was tragic but avoidable.
