MADISON COUNTY, N.Y. -- Few words can describe the pain caused by the devastating loss of a loved one.

"People tell me to forgive, but in this case, I can never forgive the person who took the most precious, loving daughter that I will ever have," wrote Tiffany Meeks' mother, Susan Mott, in a victim impact statement which was read by District Attorney William Gabor. "You are a poor excuse for a human being and I hope her spirit haunts you for as long as you live."

Meeks and her murderer, Kevin Farley, were childhood friends who grew up next to one another. 

Family members say Meeks, a mother of two young children, cared for everyone she met, even her attacker. 

"Tiffany tried to save me from going to get high that night," Farley said. "All she wanted me to do was stay there so I wouldn't go out and do it another time. Everything I've done, she still wanted to save me. She's the best person I'd ever known."

He admitted to his crimes last month. One night last August, Farley tried to rape Meeks and then strangled her to death. Farley stole her car and drove to Syracuse where he then stole another woman's car at knife point, leading police in a high speed chase.

"For someone who's trying to help you and then you do what he did, it's indescribable," Tiffany's father, David Meeks said

Farley was given the agreed upon sentence of 24 years to life in prison.

He wouldn't be up for parole until he's in his late 50s, but the judge says he will make sure the parole board knows that Farley has proven time and time again that he would not make a good parolee.

"The longest he has ever gone being released on parole is ten months without violating his parole," Madison County Court Judge Dennis McDermott said.

Farley apologized for his wrongs again and again saying, "I could never ask for your forgiveness. I would not expect it from any of you."

However, Meeks' family says those words will never be enough. 

"I don't feel he had the remorse that he's saying, but if he did, he wouldn't have killed her," David Meeks said. 

A monstrous act he will have to live with for the rest of his life.

Meeks' father says he believes the justice system failed them. Farley had been released on parole three times over the past several years, violating parole each time. Meeks' father says he should have never been allowed out of prison. He says he hopes laws will be changed, so this can be prevented in the future.