A Mineola man admitted he fatally beat two puppies and seriously injured another,  agreeing to a plea deal on Monday that will have him spend a year in jail, according to Newsday.

Ellie Knoller, 31, pleaded guilty to three felony charges of aggravated animal cruelty that occurred in 2019, according to Newsday. Knoller will also be banned from owning a pet for as long as 50 years as part of his plea deal, according to Newsday.

Knoller allegedly adopted a 10-12-week-old shepherd mix named Tucker in February 2019 from a local pet adoption agency. Nine days later the puppy died from kidney rupture, likely of blunt force trauma that led to extensive internal bleeding, prosecutors said.

A day later, prosecutors alleged that Knoller and his wife, Jessica Kuncman, purchased a brown Goldendoodle puppy named Cooper from a Pennsylvania breeder. Two days later, prosecutors said the dog was brought into Garden City Veterinary Care in cardiac and respiratory arrest.

Cooper’s death was determined to be from a lacerated liver, which prosecutors alleged stemmed from blunt force trauma that led to extensive, fatal internal bleeding.

Prosecutors said the incidents followed an investigation after the defendants allegedly brought in a lethargic and lifeless 11-week-old female Goldendoodle puppy named Bella to Veterinary Referral & Emergency Center of Westbury in late February 2019.

Kuncman did not take Bella to a veterinarian for about 15 hours after she appeared to be in pain, prosecutors alleged.

Prosecutors said that veterinarians found multiple fractured ribs, bruises on her lungs, bleeding behind her eyes and a broken leg. Doctors performed surgery on Bella and had to insert a metal rod to repair her leg and a steel plate to hold her bones in place.

Aside from Knoller’s plea, which, according to Newsday, would include five years of probation, the 2019 indictment also charged Kuncman with one count of animal torture. At the time of Knoller’s sentencing, according to Newsday, “the case against Kuncman can end with an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal.”

Jeffrey Groder, Kuncman’s attorney, told Newsday his client’s case would be dismissed “if she doesn’t get into any more legal trouble for a certain period of time.”

If convicted, according to Newsday, Kuncman would face up to a year in jail.

Efforts to reach law enforcement officials, Groder or Knoller’s attorney, Greg Madey, for comment were unavailing.

Gary Rogers, the president of the Nassau County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, previously said that in his experience with animal crimes investigations, he has “never seen a case like this.”

“Practically beaten to death, it’s difficult to imagine someone could harm such a sweet little dog, but this is what happened to Bella, beaten and choked, leaving her with several broken ribs, her forearm broken in two places and a pulmonary contusion,” Rogers said in 2019. “It’s a miracle this little girl is alive and recovering – two other dogs were not so lucky.”