The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot and critically injured his first-grade teacher at a Virginia school in January has been sentenced to two years in prison for child neglect, a judge ruled on Friday.

Deja Taylor’s son swiped his mom’s gun from her purse and used it to shoot his 25-year-old teacher, Abigail Zwerner, at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on Jan. 6 with Taylor’s handgun that he had swiped from her purse.

The 26-year-old mother’s state sentence, handed down Friday by Circuit Judge Christopher Papile, is harsher than state guidelines recommend and significantly longer than the six-month sentencing recommendation agreed by prosecutors and Taylor’s lawyers when she entered a plea deal.

Taylor’s son, now 7, is being cared for by his great-grandfather, the family’s attorney James Ellenson told NBC News.

The mother is allowed supervised contact with her son at the discretion of the great-grandfather. 

Taylor, in November, was already sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for using marijuana while owning a firearm in connection to the shocking case, which made headlines across the country.

Taylor’s son told investigators he got his mother’s 9mm handgun by climbing onto a drawer to reach the top of a dresser, where the firearm was hidden in his mom’s purse. 

He stuffed the weapon in his backpack and then shot his teacher, in front of her first-grade class.

“I did it … I shot that bitch dead,” the pint-size pistol packer bragged to a staffer restraining him afterwards, according to court documents. “I got my mom’s gun last night.”

Taylor initially told investigators she had secured her gun with a trigger lock, but investigators said they never found one.

She pleaded guilty earlier this year to the felony neglect charge. As part of that plea deal, local prosecutors agreed to drop a misdemeanor count of recklessly storing a firearm. 

Taylor also pleaded guilty to the federal marijuana charge after a search warrant of her home revealed nearly an ounce of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

James Ellenson, one of Taylor’s attorneys, said earlier this year there were “mitigating circumstances” surrounding the shooting — including Taylor’s miscarriages and postpartum depression. 

The mother also has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a condition sharing symptoms with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to court documents.

In May, Taylor told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that she feels responsible and apologized to Zwerner.

“That is my son, so I am, as a parent, obviously willing to take responsibility for him because he can’t take responsibility for himself,” Taylor said in the interview.

During her federal sentencing last month in the marijuana case, Taylor’s attorney’s read a statement in which she said she would feel remorse “for the rest of my life.”

Taylor’s son fired a single shot, striking Zwerner in the left hand and her upper chest, shattering bones and puncturing a lung. She rushed her other students out of the classroom before she collapsed in the school’s office and lost consciousness.

Zwerner spent nearly two weeks recovering in the hospital and has undergone five surgeries to restore motion to her left hand. She struggles to put on clothes or tie shoes.

She has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the Newport News Public Schools for $40 million, alleging administrators ignored multiple warnings the boy had a gun. She told the federal judge she has lost a sense of herself and suffered “massive financial loss.”

Zwerner no longer works for the school system and has quit teaching, saying she loves children but is now scared to work with them.

She attends therapy and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, while also suffering from depression and anxiety.

With Post wires