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"Samantha Tomasini stood before a Monterey County judge on Wednesday and requested a prison sentence instead of probation.The 22-year-old mother, who was being sentenced for violating her former probation terms, told the judge that she would just end up violating whatever new probation she was given. Judge Pamela Butler agreed and gave her a four-year prison sentence.After bouncing in and out of court-ordered rehab programs, Tomasini overcame her addiction to\u00A0methamphetamine.\u00A0But now she's using heroin,\u00A0defense attorney Steve Liner said.In the summer of 2010, police said they showed up at the Salinas apartment of Tomasini and her then-boyfriend Patrick Fousek and found the couple high on\u00A0methamphetamine. Their baby was neglected and lived in unsanitary conditions, police said.The couple made national headlines when they were accused of attempting to sell their 8-month-old baby to strangers outside a Salinas Walmart store for $25. They wanted to sell their daughter so they would have cash for drugs, prosecutors said.Fousek, 40, was convicted by a jury of felony child endangerment for the Walmart incident. He is currently locked in state prison serving a six-year sentence, and their daughter is being raised by a foster family.Drug rehabs were not enough to break Tomasini's addictions, even though she broke off her relationship with Fousek and wanted to get clean, Liner said.\u00A0While locked behind prison bars, Tomasini hopes she will finally find freedom.PHOTOS: Salinas Walmart baby selling case"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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