BOSTON (AP) — A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and was sentenced to life in prison for slitting the throat of her friend's baby in retaliation for being kicked out of her apartment.

Natalie Rodriguez, 23, blamed her "dysfunctional ways of living" for the drunken rage that led her to snatch 9-month-old Xavier Antonio Miranda from his crib and kill him in a snowbank.

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"It really hurts to know my only friend did this to me. It destroyed my family. It destroyed everybody," the boy's mother, Giselle Miranda, said as she stared at Rodriguez from the witness stand.

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