Mother guilty in battery case

A Bloomington woman who pleaded guilty to suffocating her 4-month-old son was sentenced to 20 years in prison.\nTamara A. Waddell, 22, was given the maximum sentence Tuesday for the charge she pleaded guilty to -- battery of a child resulting in serious injury. Monroe Circuit Judge Elizabeth Mann used "depravity" and "callousness" to describe her conduct.\nMann called it "chilling to consider" that when Waddell emerges from prison, she still will have time to have more children. She has three besides Leo.\nThe only emotion Waddell showed was distress at learning she would be spending 20 years -- 10 years of actual time on good behavior -- in prison. She displayed no emotion when the injuries to Leo were recounted.\nWaddell was accused of suffocating her son, Leo, at her eastside apartment and leaving him in his crib when she went to work. Police said she admitted during questioning that she put her hand over Leo's mouth and nose in an effort to stop his crying.\nAn autopsy showed Leo, the youngest of her four children, also had 13 broken bones when he died. The breaks may have happened four to six weeks earlier, investigators said.\nWaddell received credit for just under eight months already served in jail, which will reduce her actual time to serve to about nine years and four months.