Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, was sentenced to three years in prison for aiding her husband’s operation while he was in custody.

The sentence imposed Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington was shorter than the four years that prosecutors had requested. The former beauty queen will also be credited with the nine months that she’s already been in custody.

The judge noted that Coronel, 32, was the mother of young children when he handed down his sentence. “The defendant is going to have to participate in raising her 9-year-old twins because their father will not be able to do so, given his long-term incarceration,” he said. Guzman is serving a life sentence at a maximum-security facility in Colorado.