Mom Gets Life Sentence, Plus Extra 52 to 104 Years, for Murdering Teen Daughter With Boyfriend

On Friday, a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, judge sentenced Sara Packer, the adoptive mother of 14-year-old Grace Packer, to life in prison — plus an extra 52 to 104 years, according to The Morning Call.

Packer pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for her role in the 2016 rape, torture, murder, and dismemberment of her teenage daughter, which she planned and executed with her boyfriend, Jacob Sullivan. Packer was sentenced to life as part of a plea deal with prosecutors, according to WFMX.

Sullivan, 46, also pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, rape of a child and other charges. He was sentenced to death yesterday, with Judge Diane Gibbons telling him, “You have no soul.”

At Packer’s sentencing, WFMX reports, Judge Diane Gibbons spoke for almost an hour, “saying Sara Packer was no mother.” WFMX also reports that Judge Gibbons said Grace “will stay with her” forever, and that Gibbons hopes Packer will “enjoy the state penitentiary for the rest of her life.”

The Washington Post reports that the judge also told Packer, “You like rape. You like murder. That’s a fact.”

Packer and Sullivan reportedly plotted Grace’s rape and murder for months. Packer said she stood by watching as her boyfriend sexually assaulted and later murdered her daughter.

Sullivan told investigators the brutal incident began when he and Packer drove Grace to a rented home in Richland Township on July 8, 2016. There, Sullivan recalled, he punched Grace in the face, splitting her lip.

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Sullivan and Packer gave Grace an overdose of pills before binding and gagging her, leaving her to die in the sweltering attic — but somehow Grace survived the night and escaped some of her bindings. But the following day, the couple returned to finish the job. Sullivan placed Grace in a chokehold and suffocated her, Packer said in court last week. The couple preserved Grace’s body in cat litter for three months before ultimately dismembering her and discarding her body in a remote Pennsylvania location, where it was later found by hunters, according to the Morning Call.

“Unfortunately, Grace Packer was a disposable child to these people,” Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said previously, in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “Who will now speak for Grace Packer? We will.”

At Packer’s sentencing, Bucks County Judge Diane E. Gibbons told the 44-year-old mother that she was “evil,” the Morning Call reports: “Evil recognizes evil. This is what happens when two evil people with similar evil interests get together. People like Grace Packer die.”

After the sentencing, District Attorney Matt Weintraub reportedly asked lawmakers to pass “Grace’s Law,” a new law for child protections.

“Grace’s memory will no longer be bound to that of these two predators. She is free,” Weintraub said, according to the Washington Post.

PEOPLE’s calls to the office of the District Attorney were not immediately returned.