COEUR d'ALENE - A judge on Tuesday denied 26-year-old Post Falls baby sitter Amanda L. Skogen's motion to dramatically lighten her sentence.

In March, 1st District Judge Fred Gibler gave Skogen 13 years in prison - though she's eligible for parole after four years - for the death of 3-year-old Cohen Johnson while in her care.

"I'm convinced my decision was reasonable," Gibler said.

Defense attorney Anne Taylor argued during the hearing Tuesday that the sentence was "inappropriate" because Johnson's death was an "accident."

Her crime was "one push with a horrible, horrible result," Taylor said.

Taylor also told Gibler, "(Skogen) is not a danger to society," so confinement isn't necessary to punish her.

Taylor sought probation after a period of retained jurisdiction by Gibler.

Skogen pleaded guilty in December to voluntary manslaughter.

Prosecutors have maintained that while baby sitting the boy Skogen got angry at Johnson and pushed him while the two were on a couch at her house on the 500 block of North Elm Road in Post Falls.

Johnson fell backward and hit his head, and he died days later at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane after being taken off life support when his parents were told by doctors that he was brain dead.

Skogen was initially charged with first-degree murder, but a magistrate decided on the charge of involuntary manslaughter, following a lengthy preliminary hearing. She then pleaded guilty to the higher voluntary charge.