An angry judge called the man who admitted to stabbing his wife and two young daughters to death in a jealous rage a "vile and despicable person" as he handed down a 45-year sentence in the killings.

Miguel Mejia-Ramos was sentenced in a Queens court Friday in the January stabbing deaths of his 21-year-old wife, Deisy Garcia, and their 1- and 2-year-old daughters. The sentence was part of a plea agreement the man made with prosecutors in October.

"There are no words for how sickened people are in this courtroom at the sight of you," Judge Kenneth Holder said in the sentencing hearing.

Garcia's mother and aunt both came to the hearing, making emotional pleas for a strict sentence.

"We put trust in this young man," said Evelinda Alvarado, Garia's aunt. "He deceived the family."

Mejia-Ramos asked for forgiveness from the family, saying through a translator, "I know this sentence is not enough to pay for what I've done."

Mejia-Ramos was initially charged with first- and second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the January stabbings of his 21-year-old wife, Deisy Garcia, and their 1- and 2-year-old daughters. He later pleaded to lesser crimes in exchange for a more lenient sentence.

Mejia-Ramos fled New York after the slayings and was arrested in Texas a short time later after authorities tracked his cellphone.

Prosecutors had said Mejia-Ramos stood over his sleeping wife and two daughters with a knife after seeing a photo of Facebook of Garcia and another man. Garcia awoke and screamed, and he stabbed her as she got out of bed and ran to another room, prosecutors said. Mejia-Ramos grabbed another knife and stabbed her multiple times in the torso, chest and back, they said.

After stabbing Garcia, Mejia-Ramos went back to the bedroom where 2-year-old Daniela and 1-year-old Yoselin lay, prosecutors said. He picked up Daniela, gave her a hug and a kiss, asked for forgiveness, then put her back on the bed and killed her, prosecutors said.

He then did the same with Yoselin, they said.