Breaking news from the Washington Post:

A D.C. Superior Court judge on Wednesday found Banita Jacks guilty of killing her four daughters in a case that shook the region for its cruelty.

Judge Frederick H. Weisberg convicted Jacks on four counts of felony murder in the girls’ deaths. Weisberg also found Jacks guilty of first-degree premeditated murder in the deaths of the three youngest girls, but acquitted her on the premeditated murder of her oldest daughter. She also was found guilty on lesser charges, including child cruelty. She likely will spend the rest of her life in prison.

The verdict comes after one of the most heartbreaking and disturbing crimes to have rocked the District in the last decade. The decomposed bodies of Jacks’s four daughters were discovered inside their Southeast rowhouse on Jan. 9, 2008, when federal marshals went to the home to serve an eviction notice. The deaths of Brittany Jacks, 16, Tatianna Jacks, 11, N’Kiah Fogle, 6, and Aja Fogle, 5, brought about a massive investigation and reorganization of the city’s Child and Family Services Agency, which failed to take action to help the girls before it was too late.

Sentencing for Banita Jacks will take place later this fall.