Mom sentenced to 30 years in 5-year-old son's death

Michelle Lodzinski is escorted from the courtroom after being sentenced to 30 years for the 1991 murder of her 5 year-old son Timothy Wiltsey, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at Middlesex County Court in New Brunswick, N.J. (Patti Sapone/NJ Advance Media via AP, Pool) (The Associated Press)

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Michelle Lodzinski reacts as her attorney reads letters from family and friends on her behalf as she is sentenced to 30 years for the 1991 murder of her 5 year-old son Timothy Wiltsey, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at Middlesex County Court in New Brunswick, N.J. (Patti Sapone/NJ Advance Media via AP, Pool) (The Associated Press)

Michelle Lodzinski is escorted from the courtroom after being sentenced to 30 years for the 1991 murder of her 5 year-old son Timothy Wiltsey, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at Middlesex County Court in New Brunswick, N.J. (Tanya Breen/The Asbury Park Press via AP, Pool) (The Associated Press)

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – A Florida woman convicted of killing her 5-year-old son in New Jersey in 1991 has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Prosecutors had pressed for a life sentence for Michelle Lodzinski, of Port St. Lucie.

In sentencing her Thursday, the judge told the 49-year-old woman she had repeatedly lied about the disappearance and death of Timothy Wiltsey.

She declined to address the court. She appeared for her sentencing wearing a wrist brace after injuring it in a fall.

The judge also gave her 884 days credit toward her sentence.

Lodzinski first said her son disappeared from a carnival in central New Jersey then later claimed he was abducted. She was charged in 2014 after witnesses identified a blanket found near the boy's body nearly a year after he disappeared.