Charlene Casey was sentenced to a 12 months in jail, with 60 days to serve, for a crash that killed a 2-year-old in South Boston 4 years in the past, a Suffolk Superior Court choose dominated Thursday.
Casey, 67, was discovered responsible of misdemeanor negligent vehicular murder simply over per week in the past for the multi-car collision that took the lifetime of Colin McGrath and severely injured his 4-year-old sister in 2018.
“This defendant shall be sentenced to one year in the House of Corrections, 60 days to be served and the balance suspended for two years,” Judge Katie Cook Rayburn stated, that means Casey can be detained for 60 days and launched on probation for 2 years.
She is ordered to finish 100 hours of neighborhood service throughout the probation and could have her drivers license suspended for 15 years.
Casey, the jury decided, was negligent in failing to examine for oncoming site visitors earlier than pulling into the intersection of East Sixth and L streets in South Boston. Her Prius collided with a big van, which jumped the curb and hit the younger McGraths strolling with their nanny on the sidewalk.
Colin’s mom Kerri McGrath stated she usually wonders why Casey was in such a rush that day.
“Because she couldn’t be bothered to look left, my husband and I are shells of ourselves — at times questioning whether we could go on living a whole life, the rest of our life without him,” stated Kerri McGrath in a sufferer influence assertion forward of sentencing, “The rest of my life felt like forever.”
“I’m not going to forgive you until you say sorry,” Colin’s father Brendan McGrath learn a press release written by his daughter Sloane. “You did something very bad. You need to take responsibility at some point.”
Many from the household and the nanny with Colin that day gave heartbreaking sufferer influence statements by way of the morning, noting how Colin radiated pleasure and vitality and liked singing, taking part in his guitar, meals and being close to his sister.
The household known as for a big interval of incarceration — sufficient of an “inconvenience” — which Kerri McGrath particularly outlined as at the least three months.
The mom made a promise to Colin, she stated on the stand, that the household would work out the way to be completely happy once more. Reflecting on the power of the household and help surrounding them, Kerri McGrath stated she’ll be leaving the negativity and anger with Casey behind in the present day.
“Because of who our South Boston community is today, we are never alone,” Kerri McGrath stated. “And Colin’s legacy will live on forever.”
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