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Article: Mom who attacked kids gets prison; The Roseville woman will serve at least 11 years for using a knife and axe on her daughters.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 3, 2009
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Byline: ANTHONY LONETREE; STAFF WRITER
A Roseville mother who pleaded guilty to trying to stab her two young daughters to death was sentenced Thursday to nearly 17 years in prison.
"I'm sorrier than I can say that all this happened," Sylvia Sieferman, 61, a former systems analyst and Boston University professor, said in a brief statement to Ramsey County District Judge Paulette Flynn.
Sieferman, whose life began to unravel after a 2004 layoff from the former Guidant Corp. (now Boston Scientific), must serve at least 11 years in prison under the plea agreement negotiated in May. Flynn told her the August attacks were an "unspeakable tragedy" and ...