SYRACUSE - A city woman received a 20-year prison sentence Friday for causing her 5-week-old daughter's death.

A jury convicted 31-year-old Arlena Gilliam of first-degree manslaughter in November for violently shaking the infant, Victoria Jackson, in October 2004.

The baby suffered a fractured skull and two broken legs.

At the sentencing hearing, Gilliam continued to maintain she wasn't guilty.

She testified during her trial that she had been drinking and was asleep when the incident happened.

“You did not want to be a mother that night,” Judge Anthony Aloi told her.

“You just wanted to sleep off all the alcohol you had consumed that day and evening. You couldn't cope with a crying, hungry” baby.