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Provo • Kaylee Hope made a choice six years ago: She got clean from addiction, hoping to shield her own son from the power of drugs.

But in March, her 8-year-old boy, Kaydon Delroy Sillitoe, was skateboarding on a Payson street when he was struck and killed by a car driven by Tabatha Ann Magoon.

The 38-year-old Payson woman later admitted in court papers that she was under the influence of methampethamine.

"I got clean so that I could protect my child from the horrors of addiction," Hope said during a Wednesday sentencing hearing for Magoon in 4th District Court. "And here, somebody else's addiction has ripped my child from my life."

After the crash, Magoon was charged with second-degree felony automobile homicide and class A misdemeanor use of methamphetamine.

In October, she pleaded guilty to a lesser charge — third-degree felony negligent vehicle homicide — as part of a plea deal. She also pleaded guilty to the drug charge.

On Wednesday, Judge Fred Howard sentenced Magoon to prison, ordering that she serve consecutive sentences of zero-to-five years for the felony and an additional year for the drug possession charge.

Kaydon's family decried the sentence, saying they wanted the woman to serve more time behind bars for causing the crash that killed the young boy. Kaydon's father, Brandon Sillitoe, called the sentence "garbage," saying it doesn't change the pain his family feels.

The father said he almost lost his job after Kaydon's death, and has contemplated suicide. He thinks of his son every day, and told the judge that he can't walk down a toy aisle to buy gifts for his other children without breaking down.

Sillitoe said his younger 6-year-old son has told that he wanted to die so he could be with his brother.

"I hide my pain," the father told the judge, crying. "And I don't cry in front of him as much as I can. I try to stay strong while I die every day."

Magoon was handcuffed and taken to jail immediately after the hearing, despite a request from her attorney, Dennis Pawelek, to remain free until after Christmas.

Several health care professionals who have provided therapy and drug addiction treatment for Magoon spoke on her behalf, saying she was has made changes in the last 10 months.

She is remorseful, they said, and knows the pain of losing a child all too well — she lost one of her own to a disease several years ago. An abusive first marriage and other trauma led to her use of drugs as self-medication, her therapist told the judge.

While Pawelek apologized on his client's behalf, saying Magoon was "terribly heartbroken" for Kaydon's family, the woman did not speak during the hearing.

Her attorney said she had expressed herself in a written statement, and did not want to speak in court because of tensions between her family and the Sillitoes.

Kaydon's family said they don't believe Magoon is remorseful.

"If I was to take someone's baby, I would do anything in my power to make it right," stepmother Johnnie Sullivan said. "I would be at their feet begging for forgiveness. That's what a mother is, that's what a good woman is. I just hope she really gets the picture of what she stole from us."

On March 20 at about 2:35 p.m., Kaydon was struck while riding his skateboard in the intersection of 1000 West and 680 South in Payson.

Magoon made a right turn to go west at the intersection, but took the turn wide and ended up left of center in the eastbound lane, where Kaydon was riding his skateboard in the street.

Magoon's car drove over the boy, who died shortly after his arrival at Mountain View Hospital in Payson.

A urine test showed the presence of amphetamines, methamphetamine, opiates and oxycodone in Magoon's system, charges state.

She later told police she had smoked methamphetamine earlier that day, charges state.