STAMFORD — A judge has rejected a 54-year-old former South Norwalk restaurateur’s pleas for a second chance.

Annie Gramson, the former owner of Sweet Lucy Lynn’s on North Main Street in Norwalk, was sentenced Tuesday to serve two years in jail for violating the probation for three misdemeanor convictions.

Gramson told Judge Gary White she tried to adhere to the rules of her probation.

“I have tried to be cooperative and I have apologized for any earlier lack of compliance and I am asking the court to please consider giving me another chance as I have been nothing but compliant since I have been violated,” she said.

Gramson was given a two-year suspended jail sentence after a jury’s conviction for leaving her 4-year-old son sleeping in the car while she went shopping at the Ridgeway Shopping Center in 2013. The suspended sentence also included convictions for criminal mischief and disorderly conduct she picked up in Norwalk around the time her restaurant closed.

Gramson, who has a promoting prostitution and money laundering convictions from New York on her record, told White her 8-year old son needs his mother and she needs to keep working to provide a proper education for him.

“I find it ironic that you ask me to prioritize the needs of your son. I would have thought you would be the one to prioritize the needs of your son,” White said.

He said Gramson received a suspended sentence for her convictions and she was asked only to do “a number of very simple things.”

Because she was living in New York when she was convicted, Gramson was allowed to transfer the probation to New York. But White said Gramson got into a “silly” argument with the probation authorities and was kicked out of the New York program.

White said Gramson then refused to find housing in Connecticut in a timely manner. He said Gramson also refused to participate in drug evaluation before her probation was violated.

“You said, ‘I’m going to jail because I’m not cooperating.’ That’s what you said. I didn’t say it,” White said, before handing down the entire two-year suspended sentence.

jnickerson@stamfordadvocate.com