Banita Jacks sentenced to 120 years

Banita Jacks, the D.C. woman convicted of murdering her four daughters, was sentenced to 120 years in prison. The 35-year-old had left the girls to decompose in her Southeast row house for months until they were discovered by authorities in January 2008. The girls, ages 5 to 16, had slipped through the cracks of the District’s child welfare system. Jacks received the minimum sentence of 30 years for each of the dead girls.