Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse woman admitted violently shaking her 5-month-old, Nataliah, but avoided charges in the baby’s 2013 head-trauma death.

In 2018, she was accused of leaving two dogs -- Maximus and Eve -- to starve to death in a basement.

On Thursday, Wanda Trumble, 25, was sentenced to a year in jail for yet another transgression.

Wanda Trumble stands next to her lawyer, Ed Klein, in court in 2014.

Wanda Trumble’s disturbing saga began years ago. She first made headlines as a 19-year-old in November 2013, when baby Nataliah died from severe head injuries. By then, Trumble -- a mother of three -- had already been investigated for abuse and the baby had already suffered a spiral leg fracture, rib fracture and spinal nerve damage.

Trumble admitted to violently shaking her young daughter hard enough to cause brain injuries. She demonstrated how she shook Nataliah in a videotaped police interview.

But doctors later ruled that it was a second beating -- days later -- that caused Nataliah’s fatal injuries.

Trumble’s boyfriend at the time, Joseph Molina, was charged in Nataliah’s death. Prosecutors said Molina was home alone with Nataliah at the time of the fatal injury. But Molina was acquitted by a jury after blaming Trumble.

At the time of Nataliah’s death, Trumble had three children -- the other two don’t live with her. Molina had 11 other children.

No one ever went to jail for baby Nataliah’s death.

Trumble pleaded guilty to the assault on Nataliah days before her death. Trumble was sentenced to five years’ probation in 2015.

In 2018, Trumble was arrested again after the two mixed-breed dogs, Maximus and Eve, were found dead from starvation in the basement of an apartment that Trumble shared with her new boyfriend, Timothy Stevens. The dogs had been found dead in March 2017 on the city’s North Side.

One “was skin and bones,” animal control officer Jason Driscoll said in court papers.

“It appeared to have been starved to death..." hes said. "The dog’s paws and claws were attached to a kid’s plastic four-wheeler. I had to pry them off to remove the body...”

A probation officer described the conditions of the couple’s Seward Street house shortly before the dogs were discovered:

“The home was filthy,” Kiersten Curtis told police. “The floors, the kitchen counters were filthy. I observed several cats in crates with overflowing litter and overwhelming stench of feces and cat urine...”

Curtis said the couple couldn’t show her the dogs during her visit. At the time, Curtis said she looked in the basement and didn’t see them, either. She described Sevens’ behavior as suspicious: “He was antsy and sweating even more.”

Curtis went downstairs herself: “The basement was disgusting. I don’t know what it was. Just nasty.”

When asked when they’d last seen the dogs, Stevens said it had been the day before. He added “that he usually just throws down a bowl of food,” Curtis added.

Trumble has blamed Stevens for the animal abuse. She told police that Stevens had promised he’d given the dogs away.

“I am very upset and hurt,” Trumble told police in June 2018, after finding out the dogs had died. “A loss for words about what happened...”

Stevens pleaded guilty and spent nine months in jail, according to court records.

Trumble was also charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty. But prosecutors didn’t get far with the case before Trumble disappeared.

Probation officers -- still watching her after Nataliah’s assault -- couldn’t find Trumble for several months in 2018, shortly after she was released on the animal cruelty charge.

Her lawyer, Ed Klein, said that Trumble had taken up with another boyfriend, and he convinced her to disappear. In any case, Trumble was later found and charged with violating probation.

That brings us to Friday’s court appearance. County Court Judge Thomas J. Miller -- who presided over Nataliah’s case years ago -- ruled that Trumble hadn’t been rehabilitated from probation.

Instead, Trumble admitted to absconding, violating probation from the earlier shaken-baby case. She was sentenced to a year in jail.

She still faces the animal cruelty charge. For now, she’s planning to fight it, arguing that the dogs belonged to Stevens and that he’d promised they’d been given away.

If convicted in the dogs’ deaths, Trumble could face additional jail time.