A judge in northeast Ohio sentenced a woman to life in prison without the possibility of parole Monday for the fatal stabbing of a 3-year-old boy as he sat in a grocery cart outside a Giant Eagle supermarket.

Bionca Ellis, 34, of Cleveland, sat expressionless as Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John Russo imposed the sentence for the June 2024 attack that killed 3-year-old Julian Wood and injured his mother, Margot Wood.

A jury found Ellis guilty earlier in October of aggravated murder, felonious assault, child endangering and aggravated theft. She has been held in jail on a $5 million bond since being indicted by a grand jury last year.

"In my years as Prosecutor, I have seen unimaginable acts of violence — but this is among the most heartbreaking," prosecutor Michael C. O'Ma

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