The mother of a 3-year-old boy took a deep breath when she stepped to the podium to address the Ohio judge at the sentencing hearing for the woman convicted of stabbing her son to death as he sat in a shopping cart outside a grocery store.

Margaret Wood and her son Julian Wood on June 3, 2024, were shopping at a Giant Eagle supermarket in North Olmsted, a suburb of Cleveland, when 34-year-old Bionca Ellis ran up to them and repeatedly stabbed the boy, killing him.

"I watched my son take his, his first breaths when he was born and I watched him take his last in my arms — covered in his blood," Margaret told the court on Monday. "A mother should never have to bury their child. A mother is supposed to go first, not her children. A mother shouldn't receive her child's death certificate at 3

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