Australian woman Roxanne Eka Peters is imprisoned after stabbing her alleged rapist and dragging her body with a car

A mother was sentenced to jail on Monday after killing her alleged rapist and dragging her body with a car, reports CBS News partner Network Ten in Australia. Roxanne Eka Peters, 35, faces nine years in jail for manslaughter and 18 months for interfering in a corpse, the Brisbane Supreme Court ruled. However, she will be eligible for parole in less than two years.

Peters fatally stabbed Grant Jason Cassar, 51, with a kitchen knife at home in Capalaba, Queensland, in December 2015, according to Network Ten. She then tied a rope around her body, including her neck, and dragged her behind her car to a ditch where she hid it.

Prior to the murder, Cassar allegedly threatened to harm her child if she did not continue to have sex with him.

Judge David Bodice told the Brisbane Supreme Court that Peters had "a significant provocation" after Cassar raped and threatened her child.

"I accept that the stabbing took place in circumstances where you were enraged by what the deceased had done to you and threatened to make you again," he said.

However, Bodice said that she should have called for help after the stabbing and showed respect for Cassar's human dignity instead of "getting rid of the body of the deceased with insistence".

Boddice said that her education with drug addicts, where she had been sexually abused, had exacerbated the anger she felt when Cassar came to her home on the day of her death, according to the report.

With the passage of time, Peters will be eligible for parole in June 2020.