AKRON, Ohio — A man who gave a 23-year-old woman a fatal heroin dose will spend the next three years in prison.

Summit County Judge Lynne Callahan sentenced Jack S. Shaffer, 22, of Akron, during a hearing held Wednesday at the Summit County Courthouse.

Prosecutors and defense attorney Russell Buzzelli agreed on the sentence when Shaffer pleaded guilty in December to involuntary manslaughter and corrupting another with drugs in connection with Julia Robbins' death.

Shaffer turned to face Robbins' family. Shaffer apologized to Robbins' mother, father and friend who sat in the courtroom and asked for their forgiveness.

"I can't right now," Karen Robbins said to him. "The pain is too raw."

Karen and Douglas Robbins said after the hearing their daughter was energetic, funny, big-hearted and "a handful" from the day she was born. They said Julia Robbins liked to party but that she also spoke of returning to finish her degree at the University of Akron, where she took some classes before going to work at Walmart.

No matter where Julia Robbins went, she made friends, said one of her good friends, Nancy Disselhoff.

Friends, co-workers and even Shaffer showed up to Robbins' calling hours, her family said.

"All these young people, even him getting put in handcuffs and my daughter never coming back, it's just such a waste," Karen Robbins said. "It's been rough. You just don't get over losing a child. Some days I don't want to get out of bed. Some days I don't want to move."

Douglas Robbins said he blames the man accused of selling heroin to Shaffer even more. Brian K. Newell, 21, of Akron, is scheduled to stand trial for drug trafficking on Feb. 17.

Newell was arrested at his pretrial hearing on Wednesday after Akron police issued new warrants that accused Newell of selling heroin and cocaine to an informant during drug deals monitored by police only three weeks after selling Shaffer the fatal dose of heroin.

Shaffer bought heroin and gave it to Robbins, who took the drugs about 10 p.m. March 28. Friends later found Robbins unconscious outside of the home, prosecutors said.

Officers were called about 8:15 a.m. March 29 to the home of a Robbins friend in the 100 block of North Sieberling Avenue after a friend found Robbins lying on her living room floor. An autopsy found Robbins died of an overdose on heroin and fentanyl.

Shaffer at first claimed he didn't know how Robbins got the heroin, but later admitted he bought the drugs from Newell and gave it to Robbins.

"I never in my life thought I'd see the day, as a judge, when I'd ask someone 'What's your drug of choice?' and they'd say 'crack' and I'd think 'Oh, thank God," Callahan said. "It figuratively kills me; it's literally killing this community. I have no sympathy for those who are putting it on the streets."