Judge: Life 'Not Harsh Enough' For Woman Who Sawed Up Son

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Donna Scrivo, the 61-year-old St. Clair Shores woman convicted of murdering her son, cutting him up with a power saw and scattering his body across the countryside, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.

Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Richard Caretti said the harshest penalty available to him – life in prison without possibility of parole – “somehow does not seem harsh enough,” the Detroit News reports.

“The horrific nature of your offense is mind boggling,” Caretti said.

In May, a jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting Scrivo of first-degree murder and mutilation of a body.

Prosecutors said Scrivo, a registered nurse, drugged, then strangled her son, Ramsay Scrivo, 32, and dumped his body in a bathtub, then dismembered him with a circular saw in-store surveillance video showed her purchasing.

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Five bags containing Ramsay Scrivo’s body parts were found about 50 miles away in St. Clair County. Authorities believe Scrivo killed her son the same day in early 2014 that she reported him missing to police.

During her May trial, Scrivo admitted, “I’m not the mother of the year,” but she said a masked intruder had killed her son and held her hostage for five days.

She said Tuesday that she and her son were “very close,” and she had gone to “hoping for a non-guilty verdict,” according to The Detroit News.