Peter James Wilson, who was convicted of slitting his 5-year-old stepdaughter's throat in a rental home near Lake Cushman in June, was sentenced to 55 years in prison...
"Clare was a bubbly, smart, loving, creative, vibrant 5-year-old girl," Sarah Wilson said. "Clare never got to see her sixth birthday... What remains of my baby girl this side of eternity is a bag of ashes inside a pretty urn. I have difficulty falling asleep every night. In the dark and the quiet, the image of my baby girl bleeding to death in my arms keeps me awake. Every morning I wake with new sadness. Not a day goes by where I'm not subjected to seeing some replay in my mind of the day Clare died.
"We've been reduced in one fell swoop from a family of four to a mother and a daughter broken and incomplete. (It's) all so senseless. No amount of time (Peter James Wilson) ever serves in prison can bring Clare back to us, nor can it erase the images of that horrific night from my mind."