urts for me to know that they have to go and live without their mom for the rest of their lives because of the monster that she met,  Wagstaffe said.

 Their father's decisions and their father's irresponsibility, selfishness, recklessness and their father's dangerousness is not their fault,  said Davis' brother, Akeem Davis.

Davis' family said the grief of losing her will always remain but Friday was about closure.

Dixon's defense attorneys said they plan to appeal the decision.

 Based on the charge that he was convicted of, he gets 25 to life. That's what the law states and the judge felt that life was appropriate,  defense attorney Joseph Dewey said.  I argued asking not to give life and to give the lowest possible sentence but obviously the judge disagreed. We do plan on appealing.