A Champlin woman who took advantage of her aging mother’s deteriorating mental health by writing checks to herself totaling more than $50,000 will spend 90 days in jail.

Jane Francis Barbosa, 54, also was ordered to pay restitution in the case.

Ramsey County District Judge Joy Bartscher sentenced Barbosa on Friday, about two months after Barbosa pleaded guilty to one of the four felonies in the case.

The other three filed against her were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.

That agreement included keeping Barbosa out of jail if she paid back the money she owed by her sentencing date, her defense attorney, David Sjoberg, said Friday.

But she wasn’t able to come up with it in time, so jail time came back into play.

Barbosa is remorseful about what happened, and wants to pay the money back as soon as possible, Sjoberg said.

The victim’s son-in-law, Randal Haddrall, disputed both notions, saying Barbosa had yet to show any remorse for her what she’d done, adding that he doubted she’d ever pay back what she stole.

“Whether she pays it back or not it’s never going to fix things,” Haddrall said.

He went on to describe how difficult it was to watch Barbosa exploit her elderly mother, and how powerless he and his wife felt to stop it due to current laws governing elderly financial abuse.

Barbosa was charged with two theft counts and two counts of financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult this past April after investigators learned via her mother’s attorney that the 90-plus-year-old St. Paul woman was feeling “scared and intimidated” by her daughter, according to the criminal complaint.

The woman told her attorney that her daughter recently demanded she write her a check for $60,000 and noted she made similar demands of her in the past.

After reviewing the woman’s bank records, investigators noted several checks written to Barbosa, including one for $10,000, another for $7,000 and a third for $7,000.

Barbosa told investigators that the checks were loans from her mother, but her mother told investigators she hadn’t been aware of them.

Barbosa has no prior criminal history in Minnesota.