A Winchester man was sentenced to a year in prison after allowing his mother to die without calling for help,

Jeffrey Wisecup, 28, pleaded guilty in January to reckless homicide for the death of his mother Sheila Wisecup last year. Thursday, he was sentenced, without comment, to the one year recommended in the plea agreement.

In January, Wisecup told Clark Circuit Judge Jean Chenault Logue that he and his mother had been drinking all day when his mother started talking about committing suicide. Wisecup said she began injecting insulin but he passed out. When he woke later, he said he heard his mother having a seizure. Instead of calling for help, he moved her into her room, shut the door and went back to sleep. When he woke the following morning, Sheila Wisecup had died, he said. Wisecup also told police they were supposed to commit suicide together.

Jeffrey Wisecup, though, did not report her death for five days, until another family member threatened to call the police. During that time, police said Wisecup went to work and told other people she had died, but told them not to tell anyone.