Angelika Graswald has been given the maximum sentence in court Wednesday morning. Caitlin Landers reports.

GOSHEN, N.Y. -- It was emotional day for the victim’s family as Angelika Graswald received the maximum sentence, 1/3 to 4 years in state prison, in fiancé Vincent Viafore’s 2015 death.

Graswald did not look at Viafore’s sister and she talked about the pain and loss the family felt with his death. Viafore's family does not feel a true sense of justice with Graswald's sentencing. 

"Four year for taking someone's life? No way," said the victim's mother, Mary Ann Viafore.  

Viafore died in April 2015 when he and Graswald went kayaking near Bannerman Island. Graswald admitted in July to causing Viafore's drowning by removing the plug from his kayak. Prosecutors say she didn’t try to help her fiancé as he drowned in the Hudson River. The judge told labeled Graswald as a narcissist.

"It just shows that you are the kind of person, you certainly have the lack of understanding of other people's feelings. It appears to me you have an excessive need for admiration, " said Orange County Court Judge Hon. Robert Freehill.  

The judge also imposed a $5,000 fine for criminally negligent homicide.

Graswald chose not to speak in court, but her lawyer read a statement on her behalf that gave condolences to the Viafore family, and said that she was treated unfairly in the justice system.

"I send my condolences to the Viafore family, and to my own family, who have had to walk this hell beside me, although from across the ocean," said defense attorney Richard Portale.

Wearing a necklace with Vincent’s image on it, his mother briefly spoke outside the courthouse about the grief she feels over her son’s death.

“My son was a good man. And everybody loved him, and we miss him very much,” Mary Ann said.

Graswald‘s lawyer says with more than two years served, his client may be released at the end of December. And since Graswald is not a United States citizen, she could also face deportation for this crime.