MOUNT CLEMENS, MI -- A woman convicted of leaving her baby to die after giving birth in an Eastpointe garage was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.

A jury in March found Angela Alexie, 25, guilty of first-degree murder for leaving her newborn son in the unheated garage on Dec. 22, 2014, where he died two days later.

The baby, unofficially named Henry Alexander Macomb by employees of the Macomb County Medical Examiner's Office, was left in the garage for weeks before someone placed the body in a recycling bin for curbside pickup.

It was discovered Jan. 14, 2015 at a Roseville recycling center, where employees found it on a sorting conveyor.

Tips from the community led police to Alexie after the baby was discovered.

"I didn't mean for it to happen," Alexie, told a Macomb County judge Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. "I wish I could take it all back."

Three other children had been removed from Alexie's care before the 2014 incident.

Alexie admitted to a long history of heroin and cocaine use, according to an Associated Press reporter at the Mount Clemens courthouse.

"This case disgusts me," said county prosecutor Eric Smith outside the courtroom.

"She had plenty of options, plenty of alternatives. No one leaves a newborn in a garage."