YOUNGSTOWN — Stacie A. Gilmore, 51, was sentenced to three years of probation Tuesday after being found not guilty of kidnapping but guilty of the lesser included offense of unlawful restraint.

Gilmore was free on bond when she went to trial in October, but she was taken into custody at the end of her trial. She learned her sentence Tuesday from Judge Andrew Logan, a retired Trumbull County Common Pleas Court judge who presided over her trial.

The jury also found her guilty of felony child endangering, misdemeanor child endangering and misdemeanor domestic violence.

Being found guilty of unlawful restraint instead of kidnapping was significant because Gilmore could have gotten about 10 years in prison on the kidnapping charge. Unlawful restraint carries no prison time. Gilmore could have gotten several years in prison on the felony child endangering.

Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Caitlyn Andrews recommended that Gilmore get the maximum sentence of 36 months in prison, saying Gilmore “robbed (the victim) of a childhood.”

But Logan mentioned a presentence report of Gilmore’s background in saying that Gilmore has a “checkered” past, but there “wasn’t anything substantial” in her criminal history.

When looking at the seriousness of the case and the likelihood of Gilmore reoffending, Logan said those factors came down in a “neutral area.” He said the case is proper for community control sanctions rather than prison.

“And obviously if there is any failure, the prison sentence will come back into play. But at this time, taking into consideration … the case in front of me,” he ordered her to serve probation.

She gets eight months in the Mahoning County jail, which is 240 days, and credit for the 185 days she has already spent in jail during the case.

She will report to “day reporting, be assessed, and comply with any orders or directions from day reporting (program) and possible placement in an intensive outpatient program,” he said.

She is ordered to maintain mental health treatment through Compass Family and Community Services, and have no contact with the victim.

She could get up to 36 months in prison if she fails to cooperate with the programs ordered for her, the judge said.

Logan noted that raising a child can be a difficult task. “I understand the frustration you have on occasion, but they cannot include this type of serious physical harm,” Logan said. “The state is right. This is the worst type of physical harm that was testified to,” he said.

“This was a criminal act you perpetrated. It can’t happen again,” he said.

Gilmore took the stand and denied allegations that she used physical punishment on a child for nearly seven years, starting in 2016 when the child was 5 years old.

Gilmore’s charges stemmed from allegations that she used zip ties, an extension cord and pipes to torture and cruelly abuse a boy.

Her lawyer, Jim Lanzo, said in opening statements Tuesday the boy lied when he told investigators that Gilmore abused him because Gilmore was overprotective, would not let him go to regular school or use the internet, and the boy “didn’t want to be there.”

Andrews said in opening statements in the trial that Gilmore would “zip tie” the boy, “And while he was tied up, she would hit him with these objects and she would abuse him.”