Woman gets life for killing 3-year-old

CLEVELAND A judge in northeast Ohio sentenced a woman to life in prison without the possibility of parole Monday for the fatal stabbing of a -year-old boy as he sat in a grocery cart outside a supermarket Bionca Ellis of Cleveland sat expressionless as Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John Russo imposed the sentence for the June attack that killed -year-old Julian Wood and injured his mother Margot Wood A jury discovered Ellis guilty earlier in October of aggravated murder felonious assault child endangering and aggravated theft She has been held in jail on a million bond since being indicted by a grand jury last year I have seen unimaginable acts of violence but this is among the greater part heartbreaking prosecutor Michael C O Malley declared in a report Bionca Ellis horrific actions warrant nothing less than life without parole Ellis attorneys Fernando Mack and Carlos Johnson revealed the judge s ruling is the wrong outcome and that Ellis will appeal the conviction and the sentence They had entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity At the time that she s arrested and all the way through she s deemed incompetent really so it s hard for us to swallow Mack noted To think that she was only OK just for that moment just for that day but all the other days we ll concede that she had certain severe mental infection kicking in Functionaries reported Ellis entered the Giant Eagle grocery store in North Olmsted armed with two knives that she had stolen from the Contributors of America Thrift Store next door They commented she spotted Julian and his mother near the front and followed them into the parking lot The mother was about to load her groceries into her van when Ellis ran at them with a knife stabbing the toddler twice before walking away The boy died at a hospital while Margot Wood was treated for a shoulder stab wound Prosecutors stated she tried to pull her son out of the cart during the attack