A Bronx woman who fatally beat her tragic 7-year-old daughter, then threw court tantrums that delayed her sentencing twice, whined to a judge Monday about people calling her “a monster mom.’’
Navisia Jones, 39, finally ended up sentenced to 17 years behind bars for torturing and killing her own little girl Julissia Batties — with two extra years tacked onto her prison term because of her courthouse shenanigans.
“They called me a monster mom,’” Jones sniveled to the judge before getting slapped with the sentence, according to the dead girl’s grieving grandma.
“Why would they lie on me?” Jones allegedly demanded to know.
Grandmother Yolanda Davis, recalling Jones’ sickening comments, told The Post, “I wanted to say to her, ‘Yes, you are a monster mom.
” ‘You carried that child for nine months, and you murdered her.’ No, I have no sympathy for her,” Davis said of Jones.
Jones pleaded guilty to manslaughter in May for the beating death of Julissia inside the family’s squalid Bronx apartment and was promised a 15-year sentence.
But Jones twice failed to face the penalty, first by refusing to walk into the courtroom May 13 and then fueling a vulgar outburst June 16 that got her forcibly removed from the room.
Judge Joseph McCormack had warned Jones that if she didn’t behave, “It will affect your sentence.
“I will make the decision as to what to sentence you so I just want you to be quiet,” McCormack said during the June 16 proceeding. “I will determine what effect that will have on your sentence.”
On Monday, the judge made good on his promise and tacked on two more years to Jones’ sentence.
In a release Monday, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said the judge’s decision to add prison time stemmed from Jones’ outbursts, “in which she minimized her guilt, violating the conditions of the plea.
“Julissia was a defenseless seven-year-old girl, whose own mother took her life in a disturbing act of brutality and callousness,” Clark wrote. “No child should be exposed to such torment or suffer the unimaginable terror Julissia faced at such a young age.”
Police discovered the frail girl’s battered body in the family’s apartment at the Mitchel Houses on Aug. 10, 2021, sparking an investigation into Jones — who claimed Julissia fell and hit her head on a desk.
Jones and her son, 21-year-old Paul Fine, were arrested in June 2022 and charged with murder — with Fine allegedly admitting he also sexually molested his little sister.
Then this year, Jones took the guilty plea, and the charges against Fine were dropped.
Julissia’s father, Julius Batties, on Monday called Jones “a demon.
“She is evil,” he said.
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