NORTHAMPTON — An Amherst man who tried to kidnap a toddler from a downtown home during a break-in in March 2021 was sentenced Monday to eight to 10 years in state prison.

At a change-of-plea hearing before Judge James Manitsas in Hampshire Superior Court, Jimmy Lee Sanchez, 38, admitted to the nine charges in the indictment, including kidnapping of a child and breaking and entering into a building in the nighttime for a felony. Manitsas sentenced Sanchez to concurrent eight-to-10-year terms on those charges.

As outlined in court by Assistant District Attorney Matthew Russo, the facts the commonwealth would have tried to prove at trial were that Sanchez broke into the Spring Street home of Gary and Teresa Beaudry in the early hours of March 13, 2021. Their adult daughter, Kaylan, was visiting with her 20-month-old son. After the family was awakened by sounds of an intruder, Teresa Beaudry encountered an unknown man on the second floor, dressed in dark clothing and holding the child.

She chased the man downstairs where Kaylan Beaudry tried to restrain him and pleaded with him to let go of the boy as he dragged her down the outside stairs. Teresa Beaudry was eventually able to wrest the baby from the man’s arms as he tried to keep the two women off him, and he ran off. The ordeal left bruises in several places on the child’s body, court documents state.

Authorities say Sanchez also stole approximately $400 in cash and other items from the home.

With the Beaudry family in court, Russo said he hoped the prison sentence would help them move past the impact of a “traumatic, nightmarish experience.”

Family members declined to speak during the hearing and did not wish to comment outside court.

Defense attorney Daniel Solomon said his client was taking responsibility for his actions and he had taken time to discuss and think about his future after he completes his sentence.

On the remaining charges, Sanchez received concurrent 2½-year jail sentences for assault and battery and attempt to commit a crime, and a one-year jail sentence on two larceny charges, also concurrent. On the charges of burglary with assault and breaking and entering in the nighttime, he was sentenced to five years probation following completion of his prison sentence.

Sanchez was given 1,008 days credit for the time he has been incarcerated since his arrest in March 2021.

The plea agreement was reached following a so-called Rule 12 conference last week in which the parties presented arguments to the judge who then indicated the sentence he would impose.

Sanchez was taken into custody on the University of Massachusetts campus on March 14, the day after the Spring Street break-in, on charges of trespassing, breaking and entering in the nighttime to commit a felony and larceny from a building.

He had just been released from the Hampshire County jail where he had spent four months in pretrial detention. He pleaded guilty in Eastern Hampshire District Court to 13 charges and received a sentence of time served, according to court documents.

Prosecutors arguing for pretrial detention following his indictment on the current charges said Sanchez has a lengthy criminal record “replete with crimes of violence and larceny-related offenses.” In 2010, he was convicted in Hampden Superior Court of assault and battery on a correctional guard.

In his argument for holding Sanchez without the right to bail, Russo said the defendant had shown no concern for others.

“This case demonstrates the defendant’s total disregard for the safety and trauma of others,” Russo wrote. “The defendant could not control his criminal actions for more than 12 hours after his release from jail.”