A jury has sentenced a 25-year-old Burkburnett stepmother to a lengthy prison term Thursday for abusing her two stepchildren to the point they developed post-traumatic stress disorder.

Sara Anne Woody was sentenced to 45 years in prison for each of her first-degree felony counts of injury to a child. She was also given 10 years on each of 13 third-degree felony counts of the same offense.

The sentences will run concurrently, by law, and she will be eligible for parole once she has served half of her 45-year term. She was credited with 416 days served.

She had been found guilty by a six-man, six-woman jury Wednesday following more than11 hours of deliberation over two days.

"I know the two oldest victims are still terrified of her," prosecutor John Gillespie said before mentioning the nightmare the younger boy has.

In the nightmare, Woody gets loose from the other room because there were no police officers watching her. The boy said she had a knife and kills everyone except him, his brother and their grandparents.

"The fact that she is now locked up in a place where she can't get out should give them a sense of peace," Gillespie said of the jury's decision.

The prosecutor had asked the jurors to return a lengthy prison term as punishment for the lifelong issues she caused her children. Her two stepsons, as well as her oldest biological daughter and son, have been diagnosed with PTSD.

Gillespie said PTSD in a child alters the way children's brains develop, potentially causing lasting problems with no easy cure or solution.

"These children will not be put back together," Gillespie told jurors in his closing statements. "...What she did was cruel, evil and senseless."

Mike Payne, one of Woody's defense attorneys, had asked the jury to show leniency on her and grant her probation. She was eligible because she had never been convicted of a felony crime before this trial.

"This mess is her's, and she needs to clean it up," Payne told jurors. "...She needs to correct it, but she can't do that in a concrete building."

"This is not just a mess," Gillespie countered. "These are three lives that she destroyed."

While speaking with the media about the verdict, Gillespie expressed disbelief about the severity of the crimes committed by Woody. He said he believes the acts were "truly a case of child torture."

"I've been doing this for 16 years and thought I had lost the ability to be shocked," Gillespie said. "But, this one shocked me."