NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A 29-year-old woman who admitted tying a pit bull to a railing and leaving it for a week is not going to prison.

A judge on Thursday sentenced Kisha Curtis to 18 months probation.

A maintenance worker discovered the emaciated dog near death in a plastic bag at the bottom of a trash chute at Curtis’ apartment building in Newark in 2011.