Hennepin County woman sentenced to life in prison for murder of 6-year-old son

A defiant Julissa Thaler used her opportunity to address a Hennepin County courtroom by maintaining her innocence and hurling an expletive after receiving a life sentence for the murder of her 6-year-old son Eli Hart.

Unruffled, District Judge Jay Quam told Thaler that the worst thing for a parent to endure is the loss of a child.

"It's worse, though, when you don't lose your child to something like cancer or an accident. It's when someone takes that child from the world," Quam said. "What I can't imagine - nobody can imagine - is when the person that takes a child from the world is the one that brought that child in."

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