FREDERICA, Del.- A Frederica man who had possession of a neighbor's dog when it mauled a 4-year-old boy has been sentenced to prison.

According to the Delaware Department of Justice, 62-year-old Roger O. Scarborough pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and was sentenced to one year in prison followed by one year of probation.

In , while Scarborough was walking the dog, it repeatedly bit the 4-year-old while he playing outside on the 100 block of Fifth Street in Frederica.

Delaware State Police had previously reported that when the dog attacked the boy, his mother and a friend tried to get the dog off of him, only after he sustained serious injuries.

The child was taken to Kent General Hospital for treatment of serious lacerations to his upper lip, multiple lacerations to his upper back, and lacerations to his forehead and the back of his head.