"Ouch," said the mother of a 30-year-old Butler man who was sent to state prison for up to another five years for cutting off a court-ordered electronic monitoring bracelet.

Butler County Judge Timothy McCune on Thursday rebuffed pleas for leniency from repeat felon Shad Bailey and his mother, saying the defendant got a break from the judge who gave him house arrest as a punishment in the first place.

McCune said Bailey has had 27 criminal arrests in adult court and four arrests as a juvenile.

Although Bailey's criminal history includes burglaries and thefts, on the day in question — Sept. 24, 2007 — Bailey was serving house arrest with electronic monitoring for one of his three drunken driving convictions.

"I admit I'm an alcoholic,"Bailey said in court.

Court documents say Bailey sliced a monitor off his ankle with a pair of scissors.

The monitor sent an alarm and an e-mail to a probation officer who visited Bailey's home at 211 Cleveland St. at around 1 a.m.

There, in Shad Bailey's bedroom, officers found the scissors, remnants of the monitor and a 30-pack of Busch beer still on ice in a cooler, according to court documents.

An opened beer can was near the door, but Shad Bailey was nowhere to be found.

"My emotions got the best of me,"Bailey explained of his decision to drink. He said he was "on a black out" when he cut off the monitor and left.

Bailey, who asked the judge to go easy on him, said most of his crimes happened in his youth, "when my attitude toward the law was not so good."

He said almost all of his criminal record was committed when he was 17 years old, but it was processed through adult court.

He said he's cleaned up his act much since his father died, and he is getting counseling for depression, anxiety and sleep disorders.

Bailey's mother, 65-year-old Darlene Bailey, also asked the judge to go easy on her son because, she said, she relies on him for part of her income.

Darlene Bailey said she fears she could lose her house if her son is imprisoned for a long time.

But the judge told Shad Bailey's attorney, Stevenson Suess of Butler, that his client already got his break.

"I see nothing mitigating about this case,"McCune said.

He sentenced Shad Bailey to serve 27 to 60 months in prison followed by 2 years' probation on the charge of escape.

The judge also refused to run this sentence at the same time as Shad Bailey's other current prison sentence of up to five years.

The punishment was doled out late last year when Butler County Judge William Shaffer rejected Shad Bailey's initial sentence of house arrest for the DUI conviction.

He resentenced him to serve two to five years in prison for the offense committed in 2004.

According to court documents, the new sentence specifically says Shad Bailey cannot get credit for the time he already spent on house arrest.