“I can’t believe that I did that,” she recounted Wednesday before receiving her sentence.

Before he handed down the sentence, Burns said he found that Christensen exhibited a “sufficient level of remorse.” Burns was going to consider probation and didn’t think jail time was appropriate, he said.

“Yeah, you should have stopped,” Burns told her. In a perfect world, she would have, he said. But people exhibit human reactions, including panic, which doesn’t excuse Christensen’s actions, he said, though it helps explain what happened.

The judge said Christensen did "the right thing" to "go in and interview immediately," apparently meaning once the police tracked her down. Burns said he found no indication Christensen was playing "try and catch me."

Burns called the case “terrible, for both you and the victim.”

Christensen wrote a letter to the victim, which she gave to UB police at the time she gave her statement and asked them to deliver it to Ramanadhan. In it, she expressed her “sorrow and guilt,” she told the judge Wednesday.