Woman Who Tried to Smother Boy Sentenced to 30 Years

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A woman will spend 30 years in prison for trying to smother her former boyfriend’s son, an act she told the judge she never intended.

The Washington Post reports Helen Marie New­some, 27, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison and five years probation for the Landover attack.

Prosecutors say Newsome broke into the home of Andy Amaya, her ex-boyfriend, hid while he slept, and then assaulted his then-8-year-old son. Newsome covered the boy’s face with a pillow, then hit him in the head with a weapon.

But, the boy remembered his karate lessons and fought back.

“I woke up and she was smothering me,” Jacob Soliz-Amaya told News4 in 2013 after the attack. Police said the woman was also beating his head with a weapon. “While she was covering my mouth, I was thinking, and then I figured it out and then I gave her a head-butt.”

Newsome earlier pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree attempted murder and first-degree burglary.

The youngster fled to a neighbor’s house after fighting back, and called 911.