The Michigan teen who murdered his half-sister was sentenced to 40 to 100 years in prison, as the slain girl’s mother tore into him during her anguishing statement to the court Monday.
“I’m so sorry that I wasn’t there that day to protect you,” Stacey Hilton tearfully told the court, speaking directly to her daughter, Mckenna.
Mckenna was 18 when she was strangled by her half-brother, Savon Schmus, on Aug. 18, 2016.
Schmus, who was then 16, admitted to the killing as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
“You were my only baby and you’re always going to be my only baby and I love you very much,” Hilton said.
Wiping tears from her eyes, Hilton then turned her attention to her daughter’s killer.
“Savon, I hate you,” Hilton said. “I will never forgive you. Mckenna did nothing to you to deserve what you did to her.”
A motive for the killing is not known.
