{"id":415483,"date":"2026-10-01T06:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415483\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T06:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:56:24","slug":"jacksonville-woman-convicted-in-death-of-great-dane-receives-five-years-of-probation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415483\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville woman convicted in death of Great Dane receives five years of probation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman tied to the death of a three-year-old Great Dane in Jacksonville was sentenced to 5 years of probation Wednesday for aggravated animal cruelty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The woman, 43-year-old Dawn Lipford, is now a felon and will be added to Florida’s Aggravated Animal Cruelty offender database<\/a>. She will also be barred from owning any pets during her probation.<\/p>\n

The judge cited Lipford’s lack of a criminal history, bad health and the lack of care options for her children if she were to be incarcerated.<\/p>\n

In November 2025, Animal Care and Protective Services shared a post on social media about Miracle, who was found abandoned on the side of a road, severely emaciated. Miracle was humanely euthanized due to the severity of his condition. The story of Miracle quickly gained traction across the First Coast, prompting an $8,000 reward<\/a> for any information regarding Miracle’s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The investigator who worked the case said the Purina Body Condition Score<\/a> was used when evaluating Miracle’s health, and while it typically ranges from 1 to 9, Miracle scored a .5 due to his weight and was found to be gravely dehydrated with open wounds across his body.<\/p>\n

Days later, Lipford was arrested in connection with Miracle’s death, whose real name was later identified as Oakleaf. She was charged with one count of aggravated animal cruelty.<\/p>\n

Lipford had initially pleaded not guilty to the charge; however, in July 2026, she reversed her plea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman tied to the death of a three-year-old Great Dane in Jacksonville was sentenced to 5 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[353,26190,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-415483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-dawn-lipford","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}