Child-Abuser Mom Brett-Pierce Gets 32 Years to Life in Prison

At her sentencing Wednesday, convicted child killer Carlotta Brett-Pierce emphatically denied she murdered her daughter.

"I do not accept responsibility for the actual death of my daughter, because in fact, I did not kill her," said Bed-Stuy mom Carlotta Brett-Pierce, after a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge sentenced her to 32 years to life in prison for the death of her 4-year-old daughter, Marchella, according to the New York Post.

When police found the lifeless body of 4-year-old Marchella Brett-Pierce in her mother’s messy Bed-Stuy apartment on Madison St. in September 2010, she was covered in bruises, weighed only 18.9 pounds and had a single kernel of corn in her stomach.

The medical examiner ultimately determined that the cause of Marchella’s death was Battered Child Syndrome.

Justice Patricia DiMango at the sentencing was disgusted with the mother’s lack of self-remorse, calling her a "self-centered, volatile and belligerent woman.”

"What kind of person could do this to child, let alone her own child?" asked DiMango. "Children do matter in society, and they do have a voice, even in death.”

The judge also sentenced the child’s grandmother Loretta Brett—who witnessed Marchella bound and tied to a toddler bed in the bedroom most days, where she also slept—to five to 15 years in prison for manslaughter.

“This is a tragedy,” said Brett-Pierce, blaming jurors, the press and her own lawyers for her predicament, but refusing to take any responsibility at all.

"I'm not perfect," Brett-Pierce added. But "by no means am I a malicious or a vicious person.”