GEORGETOWN, Texas --- A judge sentenced Georgetown daycare owner Holly Harrison Thursday to two years and 20 years in state prison to be served concurrently.
The two year sentence was issued for tampering with evidence and the 20 year sentence was issued for injury to a child.
Shawn Dick, the Williamson County District Attorney, said Thursday's ruling will help the family move forward.
"As one of the family members told me recently, to see Holly in a grocery store shopping and in town was just too hard for them to take and the fact that they can forget about that time in there life and they can move forward is a big step in their recovery," said Dick.
He also said what the family doesn't know about the 2016 incident will continue to haunt them.
"The family is never going to know exactly what happened to Brody in that approximate 30-minute time period where [Harrison's] phone went silent to where she called 911," said Dick. "So, not knowing what happened or what could have been I think is always going to haunt everyone involved in this case."
The final day of the trial regarding the former Georgetown day care owner accused in the death of a 5-month-old in her care began Thursday with an emotional testimony from the woman's daughter.
Once called to the stand by the defense, she said she would miss her mother if she went to prison. Her mother is Harrison, who previously pleaded no contest in the child's death.
In the defense's closing arguments, they said they knew it was the mitten that killed Brody and that Harrison found him unresponsive.
Meanwhile, the prosecution asked the judge to send Harrison to prison because she "had one job and that was to keep Brody Havins alive.”
Harrison, 39, owned the day care All About Kids. She was facing charges of injury to a child and tampering with evidence, which combined were punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
Five-month-old Brody Havins died in January 2016 after choking on a glove.
A previous jury in 2016 said Harrison had too many children in her care, waited too long to call 9-1-1, didn’t remove the glove in Havins’ throat in a reasonable amount of time and didn’t perform CPR in a reasonable time or manner.
According to the the Austin American-Statesman, Harrison admitted in court last week that she deleted calls made from her cell phone prior to calling 9-1-1 because she knew that officials would be conducting an investigation.
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