Jane E. Schreiner was born to abusive parents and survived three abusive marriages before “reaching the breaking point” and shooting her husband to death in their McAdoo home on Aug. 4, 2016, her lawyer told a Schuylkill County judge Wednesday.

But prosecutors argued that Schreiner, 70, had plenty of opportunity to leave, that she had not been physically abused since 1997, and that she knew the gun she pointed at her husband was loaded and she knew how to fire it.After listening to about three hours of testimony, including that of Schreiner, Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin sentenced her to two to eight years in state prison on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. Given credit for the 13 months she already served in jail, Schreiner could be eligible for parole in about a year.State police at Schuylkill Haven had charged her with first-degree murder, criminal homicide, third-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, possessing instruments of crime, and recklessly endangering another person.Schreiner on Aug. 2 pleaded guilty to the manslaughter charge.The charge means that she intentionally committed the crime, but not with malice.“This was not an accident,” he said.Dolbin considered six mitigating factors when deciding her sentence: Schreiner’s age, her lack of a prior criminal record, her cooperation with police, that she was a model prisoner, her diagnoses of post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and other mental issues,including battered spouse syndrome, and that her husband of 19 years, Kenneth S. Schreiner, played a part in the shooting by provoking her.Deputy Assistant District Attorney Jennifer N. Foose had asked for six to 12 years.Defense attorney Joseph P. Nahas had asked for parole.Schreiner, whose family accompanied her to the hearing, did not visibly react as Dolbin imposed the sentence. Afterward, she wept as family members embraced her.Schreiner testified, describing how her husband, who hated her family, was angry that planned to go with her sister to a funeral and wanted to make soup for her son, who was having surgery.“There was always a price to pay” when she spent time with her family, she said.The day of the shooting, Kenneth Schreiner had hounded her for hours.“He just kept at me all day,” she said. “He just kept screaming.”Kenneth followed her everywhere, Schreiner said. There was no place to get away from him.“I just wanted to scare him. I was hungry. I was tired,” she said. “I never wanted to hurt him. I really did love him.”Nahas called as a witness psychologist Dr. Frank M. Datillio, who testified about Schreiner’s lifetime history of abuse, and that she suffered from PTSD, anxiety, battered spouse syndrome, and other mental illnesses. Further, age lessens coping abilities, he said.“They all came together in a unique way that day,” Datillio said.Foose called Kenneth Schreiner’s sister, Judith Ogazarek, who said her brother was a hard working man who loved his wife. She acknowledged being aware of her brother’s abusive behavior. She said she was.“No woman deserves that. But he didn’t deserve to be shot,” she said.Nahas also called as witnesses Schreiner’s son, Frank J. Shuba Jr., and her daughter, Christine Johnson.Both testified that their mother was a different person in the presence of her husband, nervous, subdued, and cautious.Shuba testified he saw Kenneth Schreiner drag his mother while yelling at her. When he intervened, Kenneth hit him.Johnson stayed away from her mother because she could not tolerate the way Kenneth Schreiner treated her.“I couldn’t deal with what he was doing to my Mom,” she said, weeping.Schreiner’s niece, Rebecca Podlasek, testified that Schreiner would look at her husband before answering questions.Ogazarek admiited to not visiting the Schreiners because Kenneth disliked her husband.Victim-Witness Advocate Michaeline Matz read aloud a written statement from Kenneth Schreiner’s mother, Regina Schreiner.“She knew the gun was loaded. Why didn’t she walk out?” Matt read. “I don’t think she should be free. I think my son’s life should be worth more than a couple of years.”According to an affidavit of probable cause, Schreiner called 911, said she just shot her husband and hung up.