A Good Samaritan from Graham Township, Clearfield County, is speaking out after the man who she tried to help instead attacked her in her own home.

We have more on how the woman says her attempts to help someone ended with broken ribs and other injuries.

The suspect had signed a guilty plea and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years this morning.

“He needed help. It was cold, it was very cold that day, very, very cold, and he just needed help. He needed gas,” says victim Mary Christine Modzel.

The complaint says Christopher Handte, 26, now a state prison inmate, claimed his snowmobile was out of gas last February.

According to the complaint, after Modzel made him a cup of tea, he was using the phone when he said, ‘I have to do this,’ and punched her in the face. He then duct taped her neck, hands and arms and stole her car.

Police say about 21 hours later, Modzel’s son and a friend found the 77-year-old laying on her side, bleeding and suffering from hypothermia.

“I remember when they found me. I remember just little snitches of here and there, but not much,” says Modzel.

The complaint says Handte reported he was living on the street in Philipsburg, walked to Douglas Explosives garage and stole a truck.

DA William Shaw said in a prior release that the stolen truck was found on fire at the Fairview United Methodist Church on Deer Creek Road the same day Handte knocked on Modzel’s door, on Feb. 20, 2015.

“He just wasn’t a very nice person and I hope he changes,” says Modzel.

Appearing on a video screen in court, Handte said he would like to apologize to “all of his victims” and for “putting them through the torture that they went through.”

Modzel also addressed the court.

“I told him it wasn’t what he did wasn’t worth what he got out of it and what I got out of it,” says Modzel. “I want to thank all the people who prayed for me and all the churches and everyone because that’s the reason I got through it, and my family, my doctors.”

The stolen car was found at an apartment building in Hawk Run. Modzel told the court it cost over $1 million to get her back to where she is now.

Handte pleaded guilty to charges including robbery and aggravated assault. The complaint says Modzel was tied to the sink and her son had come over on Feb. 21 to give her some coal.

Before the attack, the complaint says Handte had stolen the truck from his dad’s workplace, set it on fire, dumped parts stolen from the building in a river, and camped out in the woods nearby while using heroin.