Idaho Mom Gets Prison for Endangering Daughter, 9

(St. Anthony, Idaho) A 27-year-old local illegal alien mother, Isabel Chasarez, was sentenced this week to one to ten years in prison for not protecting her nine-year-old daughter from her boyfriend.

The boy friend, 38-year-old Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, pleaded guilty to raping the nine-year-old and impregnating her.

The now 10-year-old gave birth in April.

In September, Chasarez admitted to one felony count of injury to a child as part of a plea agreement. Knowing she would be deported immediately, the agreement stated that Chasarez would serve probation but Judge Brent Moss believes her sentence shouldn't be so light.

"I don't think that just turning you loose to the INS is the best solution for you and your children," said Moss.

Prosecutor Penny Shaul argued that Chasarez knew her daughter was pregnant but failed to do anything about it.

"She gave this child a pregnancy test in January of 2008...about four months before the child was actually born," Shaul said.

As Shaul told the court the state has no problem allowing Chasarez to see her children, the defendant sobbed...then told Moss her family shouldn't be punished for her boyfriend's actions.

"She did not tell her daughter to say nothing about being pregnant. Her daughter never seemed to want to admit to being pregnant," said Brent Eames, Chasarez's attorney.

In the end, Moss ordered Chasarez to go to prison for one to ten years.

The Department of Corrections will determine when she will be deported after serving at least a year in prison.