Jamestown  (CSi)  25-year-old Justice Lange of Carrington  was sentenced to serve 12 years in prison on charges related to the death of her baby in July of 2018. Following serving the sentences she will also be on 2 years of supervised probation.

Lange was set to stand trial for the charges starting on Monday. According to online records, a plea hearing was set for Monday.  Lange previously pleaded not guilty to the two felonies in September.

Judge Clark

On Monday Southeast District Court Judge, Judge Cherie Clark, departed from a plea agreement and sentenced  Lange to ten years in prison on the negligent homicide charge, and two years on the charge of child neglect, to be served consecutively.   Both are Class C Felonies.

The original charge of manslaughter, a Class B Felony, was reduced to negligent homicide under the plea agreement.

The designation of Lange as a habitual offender, allowed the negligent homicide prison sentence to be  doubled, as a Class C Felony is punishable to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Stemming from Judge Clark departing from the original plea agreement, Lange was given 48 hours to rescind her acceptance of this agreement and her guilty plea entered in court.  In the event of a  revocation of the plea deal, a jury trial on the charges could be scheduled.

Previously….Lange and her baby were reported missing out of Stutsman County on July 2. On July 6, Lange was found walking on a road in a rural area near Woodworth by a passing vehicle, according to authorities. She was taken to her grandparents’ home in Carrington, and then to the hospital.

Authorities began searching for the child, and with Lange’s help, were able to locate the slough where she said she had been staying with the baby.

The child’s body was found on July 7.

Valley News Live reports, that it was a very emotional morning in the courtroom. Judge  Clark telling Lange that she’s caused the court ‘many sleepless nights.’

The judge also had the court take a minute of silence for Lange’s baby, 4-month-old Tyr. The judge said it was to remember Tyr in his last minutes of life when he was starving, without water or clothes, & in the summer heat.

The T.V. station reported that Lange’s ex-fiancé, Jason Wilde, was telephoned into the hearing. He was very emotional—saying he’ll never understand why she did this and he’ll always miss his son. He admitted to getting meth for Lange, but he says it was because Lange asked him to.