A Cook County judge has sentenced Crosetti Brand to natural life in prison for attacking his ex-partner and killing her 11-year-old son.

The sentencing hearing Tuesday, which came about a year and a half after Jayden Perkins’ murder, marked the end of the emotional, at times tumultuous, criminal court proceedings.

But Perkins’ mother, Laterria Smith, told the courtroom Tuesday she will forever live in pain.

“You have taken away one of the greatest gifts God has blessed me with,” Smith said, speaking directly to Brand. “I will never be ok…You came and destroyed my life.”

Judge Angela Petrone called the murder of “a beautiful, innocent boy” who was protecting his mother, “exceptionally brutal,” before sentencing Brand to life in prison plus 120 years.

In June, a Cook County jury found B

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