A judge sentenced Jocelyn Bellon, 34, to 27 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to 2nd Degree Manslaughter in the 2016 death of David Schreiber.
It’s been more than five years since the Schreiber family lost their two-year-old son, David, after he was rushed to the hospital with blunt force head trauma.
"For the rest of my life, that pain and grief will exist because there is no way to get him back," Jennifer Schreiber, David's mother, said.
"In a single day, I went from a happy and ambitious father of two wonderful boys to a hollow shell filled instead with anxiety and depression," Daniel Schreiber, David's father, said.
David's parents were fighting back tears as they gave their final statements to the judge during Bellon's sentencing.
"I have to continue to hide the grief away because if I lived it every day, I would've died several times over of heart break," Jennifer said.
"The grief has left my soul and mind callused. A thin façade has hardened around what remains of my former self, insulating it from further emotion and pain," Daniel said.
David's nanny pleaded guilty to 2nd Degree Manslaughter in August.
According to court documents, in 2016, Bellon called Jennifer saying David was choking.
Jennifer called 911 and medics rushed David to the hospital where he later died.
An autopsy report later showed David died from blunt force head trauma, not from choking like Bellon first claimed.
Police said Bellon changed her story several times when interviewed.
Wednesday afternoon, Bellon wept as she apologized to the Schreiber family for killing their oldest son.
"I am the reason he's gone and I am so sorry," Bellon said.
As the case comes to a close, their child's killer will receive her punishment, but the Schreiber's say it won't bring their little boy back.
"The rest of our lives as parents have been upended as even the happiest moments with our surviving children are darkened by the shadow of the absence of our first child," Jennifer said.
Bellon received the maximum sentence possible for 2nd Degree Manslaughter.