Sometimes even a New York City judge gets it right .

Judge blasts 'monster mom' before handing out 32 years to life sentence for death of 4-year-old daughter

By JOSE MARTINEZ, New York Post

The monster mom who beat, drugged and starved her daughter to death shamelessly blamed everyone but herself today as she was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison as it emerged that her other child, the tragic girl’s then-5-year-old brother, heartbreakingly brought food to the tyke’s funeral so she could be “fed” in heaven.

Carlotta Brett-Pierce brazenly shirked responsibility for the death of her 4-year-old daughter, Marchella, who weighed just 18.9 pounds and had a single kernel of corn in her stomach when she died, portraying herself as a "loving and caring mother" overcome by poverty and a lack of smarts

"I do not accept responsibility for the actual death of my daughter, because in fact, I did not kill her," Brett-Pierce said defiantly, blaming jurors, the press and her own lawyers for her predicament. "This is a tragedy."

Justice Patricia DiMango disgustedly told the monster mom to get lost, trashing her as a "self-centered, volatile and belligerent woman" whose guilt was so overwhelming that a jury needed only 90 minutes last month to convict her of murder.

"What kind of person could do this to child, let alone her own child?" thundered DiMango, who also sentenced grandma Loretta Brett to five to 15 years in prison for manslaughter.

"Children do matter in society, and they do have a voice, even in death," the judge added.

The skeletal and battered little girl died in September 2010, after enduring a living hell in which she was denied food and strapped with jump-ropes to her tiny SpongeBob bed.

"Food, water and basic human parenting would have kept her alive," DiMango said.

But "neglect and apathy" at the hands of her loved ones doomed Marchella - who was a 26-pound "flourishing little girl" when she left an upstate clinic months before her death to go live with her mom in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Once there, the sickly child was force-fed pills and battered, often in front of her brother, Tymel.

"This child, at her tender age, was subjected to a hell that no one should have to endure," DiMango said.

Yet, her mom refused to drop the bravado, showing up in court in a suede mini-skirt to beg for mercy.

"By no means am I a malicious or a vicious person," she insisted.

"I'm not perfect," Brett-Pierce whined, saying she lacked the education and money to "care for such a sickly baby."

Kagan also revealed that 7-year-old Tymel was deeply traumatized at having to testify against his mom.

"He witnessed her conduct atrocious, despicable behavior toward his sister, who he loved,"she said.

The prosecutor said the boy continues grieving his little sister, who he sweetly tried to help at her funeral.

"He brought with him food because he knew she didn't get enough," Kagan said. "And he told his foster mother, 'I hope that she gets enough food and water in heaven."

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