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Alexis Behlke was a little girl who loved shoes, swings and baby dolls. She liked pizza, cheese, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and animal crackers. Like any toddler, she was capable of pitching a fit.

Last Thursday, Cathy Borgelt remembered the fit her granddaughter threw when she couldn’t have ice cream one day in 2013, just before getting dropped off for a month-long stay with her father.

Alexis Behlke never got her ice cream — and never came home. She died from a lethal dose of prescription painkillers given by the woman who was watching her while her father was at work.

Calling the crime “unimaginable,” a Trempealeau County judge last Thursday sentenced 24-year-old Amanda Butts, of Osseo, to 30 years in prison for the death.

Butts initially denied giving Alexis anything but children’s Tylenol after bringing her to the hospital where she was pronounced dead in the early hours of June 22 — 47 days before her second birthday, according to court records.