Pit bull mauling of Conn. baby girl leads to charges for aunt

(CBS/AP) WEST HAVEN, Connecticut - A Connecticut woman has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in the mauling death of her toddler niece by three pit bulls.

Police say 30-year-old Erica Hobdy was also charged Thursday with reckless endangerment and risk of injury to a minor in the death of 20-month-old Neveah Bryant.

The girl was mauled by three pit bulls on Sept. 30 while she was in Hobdy's apartment. She later died at a hospital.

Hobdy has said the child and dogs were in separate rooms with the door closed when she left to buy a drink. She says she came home to find Neveah had been attacked.

The child's death was ruled an accident by the state medical examiner.

The animals were killed by police.