A MOM has pleaded guilty to accidentally murdering her daughter in a tragic shooting accident.

In 2018, Amanda Moffett, 43, struck her 16-year-old after firing a gun at a stray dog that was attacking kittens outside their Nowata, Oklahoma, home.

“Every gun owner has the legal responsibility to use extreme caution when discharging a firearm,” US attorney Clinton Johnson said in a press release after Monday’s ruling.

“This case, unfortunately, highlights the potential tragic results absent that caution.”

On October 5, 2018, Laramie Moffet told her mom that there was a stray dog running around their formerly Cherokee nation home, about 51 miles north of Tulsa.

“I went out onto my front porch and discharged a handgun at what I believed was the stray dog,” Amanda Moffett wrote in her federal plea agreement, per Law and Crime.

“When I discharged the firearm, it was dark outside, and I knew [my daughter] was outside of my home trying to save the kittens from the dog.

“I did not verify that [my daughter] was not in my line of fire when I discharged the handgun.”

Moffett admitted that her actions were negligent and told the court that shooting a gun under those conditions was irresponsible.

She said that she believes the shooting was the direct cause of her daughter’s heartwrenching death.

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A eulogy for Laramie remembers her as a fun-loving teen who enjoyed barrel racing on horseback.

“Laramie always had a smile on her face,” the eulogy reads.

“She loved all animals, most of her horses, show calves. She was an accomplished rider in rodeo.

“She had no fear of animals, she rode bulls, and bareback broncs.

“She qualified for world barrel racing finals in the National Barrel Horse Association.”

Moffett faces a maximum sentence of eight years in federal prison.

Although it will likely be much shorter after her guilty plea.

Legal parties decided that a sentence between zero and 16 months was appropriate for the mourning mother due to her “early pre-indictment acceptance of responsibility.”

At first, the case was unlawfully filed as an intentional murder in Nowata County, NBC affiliate KSNF reports.

It was disputed how many times the gun was fired and whether the mom and daughter were arguing the night she was killed.

Moffett is under supervised release, and a sentencing date has not been set.

She has surrendered her pistol to the state.