HARTFORD, Conn. — A New York City woman who posed as the aunt of a boy killed in the Newtown elementary school shooting massacre and solicited money was sentenced on Tuesday to eight months in prison.

Nouel Alba, 37, pleaded guilty in June to federal charges of wire fraud and making false statements.

Starting on the day of the shootings last December, prosecutors said, Alba used Facebook, e-mails, text messages and telephone calls to falsely claim to be the aunt of 6-year-old Noah Pozner.

Authorities said she told people she was collecting donations for a funeral fund on behalf of Noah’s family and the families of other victims of the shooting, in which a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 children and six educators. The gunman, who had killed his mother at their home before going to the school, killed himself as police closed in.

Alba’s sentencing followed an emotional victim impact statement given in court by Mark Mattioli, father of 6-year-old victim James Mattioli.

Speaking at times through tears, Mattioli asked U.S. District Court Judge Michael P. Shea to impose a sentence of 26 months, one for each of the Newtown school victims.