NASHVILLE, July 12 (UPI) -- An Alabama woman has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for posing as an immigration agent to kidnap a newborn baby.
Tammy Silas, 41, was in shackles and a prison jumpsuit for her sentencing Monday. She was also ordered to pay $30,000 to the family of Maria Gurrola.
Gurrola, a Nashville resident who was stabbed during the kidnapping, said the entire family suffered. She said her two older sons, who were 9 and 13, stopped studying and began misbehaving, while her daughter, Estrella, who was 2 at the time, began stabbing her dolls with scissors.
But Gurrola said she forgave her attacker.
The abducted 4-day-old boy, Yair Anthony Carillo, was found unharmed at Silas' home in Ardmore, Ala., three days after the kidnapping. Silas pleaded guilty in February.
"I don't have nothing," Silas told the judge. "Never have, never will. Everything is about money, money, money. I would like to apologize for what the Gurrolas went through. But money makes you do evil things."
