DILLON COUNTY, SC (AP) -- A South Carolina man whose dogs killed a 10-year-old boy has been found guilty in the boy's death and sentenced to five years in prison.
A Dillon County jury on Friday found Bentley Collins guilty of one count of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of keeping unconfined dangerous animals.
The judge sentenced Collins to give years in prison and ordered him not to own any more dogs.
The body of John Matthew Davis was found in Collins' yard in November 2006 after the boy failed to make it back to his house less than a mile away.
Prosecutors said the dogs attacked the boy because they were hungry.
Collins apologized to the boy's family just before his sentencing.
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