The ex-girlfriend of a man who pleaded guilty to threatening to kill her three children says she's disappointed with the sentence he received in Saskatoon Provincial Court.

Ryan Michayluk, 30, pleaded guilty Tuesday to uttering death threats against the woman’s three children, who were seven years old, 16 months old and two months old at the time of the threats.

The children's mother, whose identity is protected under a publication ban, is outraged because she doesn’t believe the subsequent sentence is strong enough. His sentence Tuesday added a condition to a previous sentence he received for assaulting her 16-month-old daughter and included an 18-month conditional discharge.

A conditional discharge means if Michayluk doesn’t break any of his conditions in 18 months, the threats will be wiped from his criminal record.

“As a mother, when your children’s lives are threatened, it sends you through an immense amount of pain and fear that you won’t be able to stop it — especially after the assault happened,” the mother told CTV News.

Michayluk pleaded guilty in August to the assault. The girl has since fully recovered, but the assault left her face bruised.

He was handed a six-month conditional house arrest after the plea. The sentence included a subsequent two-year probationary period. Conditions of the probationary period, which began in February, are a ban on possessing weapons except for work purposes and orders to attend counselling, to abstain from drugs and alcohol and to not contact the mother or children.

His sentence Tuesday for the threats added another condition — that he not be in the woman’s hometown.

The mother says she’s moved twice since the offences happened in 2014 and still fears for her children’s safety. She was hoping Michayluk would receive jail time for the crimes.

“In my head it was a premeditated act and, in the last two years, I’ve just been waiting for him to come back and finish that act,” she said.

Defence lawyer Brian Pfefferle said Michayluk has been sober for 16 months and has been successful in the court-ordered program. Michayluk has also agreed to work as a volunteer with the program.

The children’s mother said she’d like to see child abuse laws enacted in Canada and says it’s “just sick” Michayluk received the same sentence someone could get for assaulting an adult.

“It shouldn’t be assault. That’s child abuse,” she said. “We need something to distinguish between an adult and a child. That baby did not have any chance of protecting herself that night being alone with him.”

She added she’s disappointed with the lack of support for victims in the criminal justice system.