NASHUA — Danielle Dauphinais will be 91 years old by the time she’s eligible for parole now that she’s been sentenced to at least 53 1/2 years in prison for the murder of her son, Elijah Lewis.
Dauphinais, who pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge last month as part of a plea agreement, entered the Hillsborough Superior Court South in Nashua on Friday hoping for less time in the torture and murder of her 5-year-old boy. But saying he’s been haunted by Elijah’s memory, Judge Charles Temple said, Dauphinais must be removed from society.
“It was an abhorrent, heinous, prolonged torture and murder inspired by pure hate,” Temple told Dauphinais. “You knew exactly what you were doing to Elijah. You were killing him hour by hour, day by day, month by month.”…