[DoodleDawg]

“I made a mistake. I was wrong. But is that enough to take my life away and keep me away from my child and family?" asked Evans, who has a 15-year-old son still at home.

Yes.

[Glennb51]

A mistake is an inadvertent action. This was a calm, premeditated, and calculating criminal act.

It is an excellent reason to keep her from her son and her family in order to show them there are consequences and so she is less likely to infect them with her criminal behavior.

If she got off with a lighter sentence, she, and her family, would be partying and thumbing their noses at the system.