A year to the day since she molested a 2-year-old girl she was babysitting, a Bay City woman maintained her innocence as she learned she’ll spend at least a quarter-century behind bars. Bay County Circuit Judge Harry P. Gill on Monday sentenced Patricia M. “Missy” Kreiner, 31, to 25 to 40 years in prison with credit for 130 days served. The sentence is mandatory for a conviction the charge Kreiner faced. An eight-man, four-woman jury in December found Kreiner guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person younger than 13. “I come before you today as an innocent woman convicted of a crime I didn’t commit,” Kreiner told the judge, crying as she read from a prewritten statement. Kreiner said that her conviction has torn her family apart, with her fiancé raising two of her children and her parents raising two others. “All this pain for something I didn’t do. From the very beginning, I feel I was never given a fair chance.”
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