"Any right-minded person will be sickened by your actions," she told Sevigny, who pleaded guilty to charges of intentionally causing injury, recklessly causing serious injury and common law assault. Sevigny, who has no prior convictions, was jailed for four years and nine months and was ordered to serve a minimum of three years and three months. She will serve the sentence in protection given the nature of her crimes. In her sentence, Judge Hannan took into account Sevigny's early guilty pleas, which had saved the victim and other witnesses the trauma of giving evidence, and also, apart from the present offences, her otherwise good character. Judge Hannan said the boy's victim impact statement was a "difficult document to read and much less contemplate", as was the reality of what occurred and what she described as an "open, honest child's account of the horrors he endured".

The physical consequences, she said, had largely healed, but the psychological effect was likely to be more enduring. Judge Hannan regarded him as a "brave, bright boy" who "looks forward to a much brighter future". The court heard that a psychiatrist who examined Sevigny found she had no mental disorder, had limited insight and that it was "possible" her use of methamphetamine played a role in the offending but that that was "highly speculative". The offences began on November 18 when she picked the boy up from school and verbally abused him for not handing in his homework, and later at her house she pushed him onto a bed, tore his shirt and slapped him. Sevigny then dragged him into the kitchen, made him sit on a chair and "write lines" and when he complied she kicked the chair over and struck him "all over his body".

The next day, he woke with his face black and brown and she accused him of using her fake tan which she had applied to him the previous day and then hit his legs and punched his arms during a car trip. Back at home, she forced him to have a cold shower, grabbed him by the head and choked him, sprayed him with fake tan, hit him with the can and sprayed perfume in his mouth. On the third day of the abuse, Sevigny told him to find dog excrement. When he could not, she found some and forced it into his mouth before making him drink from the dog bowl. She also forced him to drink a cup of her urine and poured the rest over his head. Judge Hannan said over the three days Sevigny continuously threatened him "not to tell" and when the injuries were seen by another person she claimed the boy had been self harming.

After her arrest, Sevigny told "blatant lies", said Judge Hannan and, at that time, "showed absolutely no remorse". "This was not an isolated incident of lack of control," Judge Hannan said. "It was a course of conduct over a period of three days. "You assaulted a child in circumstances where your conduct was calculated and ongoing. You showed no remorse for his physical or emotional wellbeing." The photographs of the boy's injuries were "graphic, disturbing and sickening", she said.

Sevigny had had an "unremarkable upbringing", the judge said and noted written character references by her sister and another woman who had expressed surprise at the offending. If she had not pleaded guilty, and been found guilty by a jury, the judge said she would have jailed her for six years and 10 months with a minimum of four years and 10 months.