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Associated Press

Banita Jacks, the D.C. woman who was convicted of murdering her four daughters in one of the most gruesome cases in this city’s history, has been sentenced to 120 years in prison, the Washington Post is reporting.

In sentencing her yesterday, [D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick] Weisberg, who has been in the bench for more than 30 years, said the case occupied his mind in the past two years like no other in his career.

Jacks was arrested in January 2008 after authorities discovered the decomposed bodies of the girls, Brittany Jacks, 16, Tatianna Jacks, 11, N’Kiah Fogle, 6, and Aja Fogle, 5, inside their Southeast rowhouse. Autopsies later determined that the children had been dead for at least seven months.

The deaths later brought about a massive investigation and reorganization of the city’s Child and Family Services Agency.

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