Jessica McCleery, 38, appears by video from the Deschutes County jail for a plea hearing in November. 

A Bend woman who owned three dogs that fatally mauled a man in a homeless encampment pleaded guilty last week to criminally negligent homicide.

Jessica Rae McCleery, 38, admitted that she “unlawfully and with criminal negligence caused the death of Joseph Taylor Keeton,” a 56-year-old Bend man who was attacked at the Juniper Ridge homeless encampment and then died at St. Charles Bend on July 19.

McCleery also pleaded guilty to maintaining dangerous dogs — each a pit-bull/bull-mastiff mix dog — and said in her plea petition she did not stop them from killing Keeton.

McCleery could face 10 years in prison, her plea petition states.

Deschutes County District Attorney Steve Gunnels said attorneys reached an agreement following a settlement conference Thursday.

Prosecutors: Bend woman left dogs unattended before fatal mauling

Prosecutors said McCleery knew her dogs were dangerous, as they had previously killed other animals and bitten people so badly that they required a hospital visit. But she left the dogs unattended on the night of the attack, and prosecutors accused her of being reckless and negligent.

McCleery lived in the Juniper Ridge area — 1,500-acres of publicly owned land on the northeast outskirts of Bend — and was arrested in October after police searched for her for a month.

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McCleery’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for Friday.