I don’t know what’s in the water out there in New York, especially since I heard about this:
Cathleen Wild was arrested the day after the Aug. 7, 2011 crash in Deer Park. She had hypodermic needles hidden in her underwear, and was driving with a suspended license.
But despite admission of DUI, possessing heroin and hypodermic needles, driving with a suspended license, and assaulting the three teens with her car, Wild was sentenced Tuesday to one year already served in jail, and five years’ probation.
You can hit someone and get more time in prison than that. And that’s not even on heroin, behind the wheel of a car, and driving with a suspended license.
Doctors told the victims – all 16-year-old students from Deer Park High School – that they are lucky to have survived.
Damn right. Especially when the worst case was a kid “in a coma for days and suffered brain swelling, a shattered pelvis, and lacerated kidneys.”
“For me, lawmakers need to toughen this up,” said [parent of one of the victims] Paul Harrington. “She does everything wrong and gets off on a weak sentence.”
Sounds about right.
