FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A woman who claimed she hit her child with a hammer to avoid being sold into sex slavery was sentenced Monday and will avoid prison time. A judge dropped the attempted murder charge for Bethany Fleming, 33. She was handed a 12-year sentence with seven of those years suspended. A portion of the remaining five years will be spent at the residential services program through Allen County Community Corrections. Fleming will spend the rest of the time on home detention and probation after that, court documents show. On Oct. 3, 2023, Fleming called 911 and told dispatchers she thought someone was coming to take her and her child into sex slavery, so she “tried to stop it and I hit him in the head with a hammer,” Fleming said, according to Allen Superior Court documents. When police arrived at the home on Ralph Avenue - between Goshen Avenue and West State Boulevard - they saw Fleming was bleeding heavily. She admitted what she’d already told dispatchers over the phone, adding that she had stabbed herself, according to court documents. Fleming and her child were both taken to the hospital in life-threatening condition. Once Fleming was cleared by medics, she spent nearly a year in jail while her case wound through the legal system. In August, she pleaded guilty but mentally ill to neglect of a dependent causing serious injury. At her sentencing, she was given credit for the time already served in jail. A no-contact order was also issued.