A Los Angeles friend who killed two boys as a racing enthusiast was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after begging a judge for a lenient sentence

A Los Angeles woman who killed two young boys after hitting them with her car was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for her crimes.

The sentence came after Rebecca Grossman asked the judge to “take her suffering into account” when handing down the sentence.

Grossman, 60, said she was “not a murderer” and added that the pain she inflicted on her family and the families of the two dead teenagers were “punishments I can already endure.”

She was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Mark Iskander, 11, and his brother Jacob Iskander, 8, after a six-week trial. She learned of her fate in prison during Monday’s court hearing.

Grossman had been engaged in a “quick game of chicken” with her lover, former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson. The pair had been drinking cocktails at a nearby bar before the incident.

“I am not a murderer and I ask that you recognize this true fact,” Grossman wrote in a letter to Supreme Court Justice Joseph Brandolino obtained by New York Post.

“My pain, knowing the pain that the Iskanders suffer and the pain that I see my family endure, are punishments that I already suffer and will continue to feel for the rest of my life. Please consider this suffering as you consider what further punishment to impose on me in this case.

Her lawyers argued she should be released on probation.

“I can only imagine the pain that (the boys’ parents) Nancy and Karim Iskander are feeling minute by minute,” Grossman wrote. “I will carry my pain for the rest of my life.”

The former celebrity also sent the Iskanders a bizarre letter, obtained by the Daily Mail, in which she wrote that if she had the chance, she would “crash the car into a tree” to avoid a tragedy.

Despite her claims, the boy’s mother, Nancy Iskander, claimed the celebrity treated her family as “enemy number one in the world” after repeatedly fighting to delay the verdict.

According to Iskander, the socialite used multiple “strategies,” including creating conflicts of interest, to delay the hearing, which was originally scheduled for April 10.

“The problem has been that every time we try to move on and get to the next step, the legal system or Ms. Grossman or both takes us back to the fight, back to the fight for justice,” Ms. Iskander said in speech last month to Fox News Digital.

“It’s horrifying to say the least. She showed no remorse, but more importantly, she showed no mercy… I felt she had ample opportunity to show mercy, to plead guilty, or to find a way to simply shorten the fighting process and not have to take me back to the courtroom over and over again.

– But she didn’t. She has had many opportunities to show mercy, but she has shown no mercy to my family, in fact, she only shows hatred… as if we were enemy number one in the world.”