CLEVELAND (WJW) - A judge handed down a maximum sentence Monday morning to a woman accused of killing a 3-year-old boy in an unprovoked attack in an Ohio grocery store parking lot last summer.

Bionca Ellis was convicted earlier this month on several charges, including aggravated murder.

On Monday, the judge sentenced the 34-year-old to life without parole.

Ellis did not testify in her own defense during the trial. Her attorneys filed a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on her behalf. Her attorneys have maintained that Ellis has suffered from mental health issues for years and was not sane at the time of the murder.

The child's mother, Margot Wood, testified during the murder trial. She cried on the stand as she described Ellis with a knife stabbing her son, Julian, for no reason

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