ATHENS, Ga. — The mother of murdered nursing student Laken Riley delivered a powerful victim impact statement before killer Jose Ibarra was sentenced to live without parole – calling the Tren de Aragua gang member a “sick, twisted, and evil coward.”

“Jose Ibarra took no pity on my scared, panicked and struggling child,” 22-year-old Laken’s mother Allyson Phillips told Judge Patrick Haggard in an Athens, Georgia, courtroom Wednesday, as Ibarra listened stone-faced on.

“She fought for her life in dignity, and to save herself from being brutally raped. This sick, twisted, and evil coward showed no regard for Laken and human life. We’re asking the same be done to him,” the mother said, raising her voice at times.

“There is no end to the pain, suffering and loss. On that horrific day, my precious daughter was attacked, beaten and shown no mercy,” she said, recalling Laken as a “kind and thoughtful child of God,” and her “best friend.”

In a hearing that lasted barely more than two hours, the judge answered the grieving mother’s pleas – declaring the illegal immigrant guilty on all charges, and giving him two life sentences, plus 27 years, each to be served consecutively.

Laken’s father, Jason Riley, also spoke, calling the pain Ibarra causes him every day “unexplainable.”

“I will never hold her hand or feel her hug,” he said “Our world has been torn apart. I am haunted by the fear she felt in those final moments. I hope justice is served for her.”

Riley was brutally killed Feb. 22 as she jogged on the University of Georgia campus, not far from Augusta University, where the well-liked student was pursuing her nursing degree.

Ibarra, 26, attempted to sexually assault the coed but ended up smashing her head with a rock and asphyxiating her when she fiercely battled back.

Prosecutors said Riley valiantly “fought for her life” for a staggering 18 minutes, gouging deep scratches into Ibarra’s neck and wrists before the much larger man finally overpowered her.

Those scratches — as well as his DNA later found under her fingernails — wound up being key pieces of evidence that helped convict her killer.

Ibarra’s trial lasted just four days, with 29 witnesses being called by the prosecution.

The defense called only three witnesses before resting its case Wednesday morning. Ibarra and his brother — a fellow gang member, Diego, who they tried to pin the killing on — did not testify.

Prosecutor Sheila Ross recounted the facts of the case for about 45 minutes in her closing argument, calling the evidence against Ibarra “overwhelming.”

Haggard returned to the bench just 19 minutes after the sides presented their closing arguments to deliver the verdicts.

Sobs filled the gallery and Riley’s family held hands as Haggard read off the guilty verdicts for felony murder, malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault with intent to rape, and Peeping Tom charges.

Riley’s savage death at the hands of an illegal immigrant garnered national attention, coming as the US is in the grips of a full-blown migrant crisis, in which some 12 million people have streamed across the border under the Biden-Harris administration’s watch.

Ibarra ended up in Athens courtesy of a taxpayer-funded flight provided by the administration, traveling from Kennedy Airport in Queens to Atlanta, Ga., in September 2023, New York City sources said.

The flight — which took place less than six months before he hunted Riley down as she jogged — was paid for out of federal funds under a Biden administration program that provided one-way flights for migrants to anywhere in the world.