What she needs is an old fashioned ass whoopin'. Hope she gets one in prison.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former babysitter who prosecutors say tossed, suffocated and abused children who were too young to speak was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison, the maximum sentence that a judge could impose.
Gianna Cochran was convicted last month of several counts of physical abuse against children she was watching in her in-home daycare. Charges were filed after Cochran's ex-boyfriend grew concerned and put a hidden camera in the living room of the apartment they shared, 10TV News reported.
Cochran's former boyfriend, John Bickel, said he captured more than 200 hours of footage of her and the children. What he saw shocked him.
"(I saw) lots of cussing, some slapping, some crying, and that's when I knew I really need to start going through this video," Bickel said previously. "It was jaw dropping shock; it's one of those feelings that sends a chill down your spine you can literally feel the hair raise up on your neck.
One video showed Cochran carrying a child around by his ankle and covering another child with a blanket. The recordings were handed over to a lawyer, who then passed them onto Franklin County Children Services, Bickel said.
During sentencing on Friday, Cochran offered a long apology to the court audience, which included family members of her victims. Several of them also spoke and described the pain and guilt they felt over the injuries endured by the children, 10TV's Maureen Kocot reported.
Edward Proctor, the uncle of one of the abused children, spoke of how Cochran injured his niece.
"About the way the defendant held my niece, who is 6-months-old, by the ankle, like the carcass of a dead animal," Proctor said. "When she jerked her arm, her elbow hyper-extended, and her cries while she was writhing in pain, were greeted by the muffling and suffocating bosom of a monster."
Cochran's trial was marked by several outbursts from victims' relatives who were overcome with emotion after the videos were played in court. Some had to be ordered out of the courtroom.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David Cain told Cochran on Friday that if several deputies were not in the courtroom she may not walk out alive, Kocot reported.
Prosecutors said Cochran would have no opportunity for an early release from prison. It was not clear if she would appeal the 25-year sentence.
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