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To the very last, Wendi Stanford proclaimed her innocence and pointed an accusing finger at her then-two-year-old daughter in the skull-fracture death of her infant son, Dillon Harbin. The final melodrama involving the blameless mother played out in Lehigh County Court, as 32-year-old Stanford was given the maximum sentence Tuesday.

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To the very last, Wendi Stanford proclaimed her innocence and pointed an accusing finger at her then-two-year-old daughter in the skull-fracture death of her infant son, Dillon Harbin.

The latest melodrama involving the blameless mother played out in Lehigh County Court, as 32-year-old Stanford was given the maximum sentence by the judge on Tuesday -- 15 to 30 years in state prison -- for causing the skull fracture that ultimately killed her 2-month-old son in 2003 in Allentown.

As our sister website, LehighValleyLive.com reports, Stanford cried as she lamented a future lost -- she would never see her baby son grow up, never see him graduate, get married or have a family of his own.

"Well whose fault is that? It's your fault. You killed your son," Lehigh County Judge Robert Steinberg said point-blank to Stanford.

But in the mother's mind, it is her then-two-year-old daughter who is still to blame for the crime.

"I've never harmed any of my children, nor would I ever," Stanford said, later adding, "Your honor, I'm not guilty of taking my child's life."

Details from LehighValleyLive:

Senior Deputy District Attorney Anna-Kristie Morfi Marks said Stanford has repeatedly claimed the toddler pushed Dillon out of a baby swing and onto a carpeted floor, causing his fatal skull fracture.

Three expert witnesses disproved the claim during Stanford's trial, the judge said, but "The defendant continues to throw (the girl) under the bus."

The collateral damage from the claim has also continued. Marks said the daughter, who is now a teenager, believed she caused her brother's death up until recently. Allentown Detective John Buckwalter, who helped investigate the case, said the girl cried when she learned she wasn't to blame for Dillon's death.

"To this day, (Stanford) blames a little kid for a pretty horrific injury to the brain of that child -- something I've never seen before," Lehigh County Detective Ralph Romano said. "That's not how it happened. I hope today we can find out what happened and this kid can rest in peace."

Stanford has been held without bail in Lehigh County Jail since being charged in the murder in 2013. And she maintained her innocence right to the very end, asking the judge to look at her "as a mother who has suffered, not as a violent monster," according to LehighValleyLive, which added:

Stanford said she would have given her life for any of her children, ticking off the birthdays and Christmases she has missed, then asked the judge to avoid sending her to state prison.

"Home with them is where I belong," Stanford maintained.

But prison is where she is going.

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