(WHAS11) -- A granddaughter steals her grandmother’s life savings.
On Thursday, a Louisville judge had harsh words for Kasey Jarvis during her sentencing...
The judge called it one of the worst crimes she's ever seen.
The 79-year-old grandmother's life-savings gone and police say all she has in the way of money to live on is $40 a month.
Kacey Jarvis has been in jail since February accused of stealing her grandmother's life savings of $150,000.
On Thursday Jarvis’s attorney asked the judge to release her and give her probation.
In return Jarvis’s attorney told the judge she would pay her grandmother back. The judge said no way and gave Jarvis some harsh words.
“It probably felt like a death to your grandmother,” Judge Susan Shultz Gibson said.
Jarvis's 79-year-old grandmother has been living in Summerfield Nursing Home in Shively, Kasey Jarvis had control of her grandmother's money, police say instead of making payments to the nursing home Jarvis was spending the money on herself.
Police say the 79-year-old was close to being evicted from the nursing home and the $150,000 was the elderly woman’s nest egg to live on the rest of her life.
On Thursday the judge told Jarvis she was getting eight years behind bars for taking what she called her grandmothers security and comfort away.
Another granddaughter is helping pay for the 79-year-old’s nursing home costs.
Kasey Jarvis's husband, Aaron has also been charged in this case. He is out of jail awaiting sentencing.
