'I hope you rot and burn in hell,' mom tells her daughter's killer

Cherri West has twice endured the pain of losing a daughter to violent crime.

And on Friday, for the second time, the Kansas City, Kan., woman saw the killer of one her daughters sent to prison.

Enemencio Lansdown was sentenced to 20 years and seven months in prison for the April 2017 fatal shooting of West's eldest daughter, Casey Eaton. He had no comment in court Friday.

Lansdown, 42, pleaded no contest in February and was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Casey Eaton, whom he had briefly dated.

Eaton, 34, was killed in the 900 block of Kansas Avenue, about a block from where her younger sister, Pamela Butler, was kidnapped in 1999.

Eaton was a teenager then and chased after the kidnapper, screaming for help, as he sped away in his pickup truck.

Pamela was later found dead in Missouri. The man who took her, Keith D. Nelson, was convicted in federal court and sentenced to death.

"My heart is broken beyond repair for the loss of my daughters," West said Friday before Lansdown was sentenced.

She said Eaton was her best friend as well as her daughter.

"I'm not an evil person," she told Lansdown Friday. "But I pray that every night Casey haunts you in your dreams. I hope you rot and burn in hell."

Eaton's sister, Amanda West, told Lansdown that he would have to answer to God.

"You are a monster," she told him. "You are a cowardly monster."

This story was originally published April 6, 2018 at 2:15 PM with the headline "'I hope you rot and burn in hell,' mom tells her daughter's killer."