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Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros, sentenced in Forest Grove fatal crash, exchanges words of remorse, forgiveness | OregonLive.com
January 31, 2014
Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros gave a nervous smile before she spoke through tears.
Dressed in jail scrubs Friday, she addressed the parents of Anna Dieter-Eckerdt, 6, and Abigail Robinson, 11, who were killed when she drove through a leaf pile where the girls were playing.
At trial this month, jurors convicted the 19-year-old of two counts of felony hit and run for failing to identify herself as the driver in the deadly crash. Circuit Judge Rick Knapp sentenced her Friday to probation.
“I should have gone back,” Garcia-Cisneros told the parents during Friday's hearing. “I should have thought about you guys.”
Within minutes of the crash, Garcia-Cisneros learned from her brother that she’d struck the girls.
Bracken McKey, a senior deputy district attorney, told jurors Oregon’s hit-and-run statute required Garcia-Cisneros to go back to the scene and provide information to authorities.
Under state sentencing guidelines, Judge Knapp had the option of imposing only probation or a maximum of three years in prison. McKey did not make a sentencing recommendation Friday.
Brought to the United States as a young child, she had temporary permission to be in the country under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at the time of the crash. The program is available to young undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before turning 16, have been living here for at least five years and are in school, graduated from high school or served in the military. Applicants cannot have certain criminal convictions.
At the Friday sentencing, immigration attorney Courtney Carter said Garcia-Cisneros’ next stop is in immigration court.
So long as we think we can second guess G-d and His laws, there will be no justice. If you unlawfully take life, you pay for it with your own. That's justice.
WHY was she not charged with vehicular homicide?
Am I understanding this correctly??
Two little girls were playing in a pile of leaves in the road.
This woman drove through that pile of leaves that was in the road and killed two little girls.
She later found out that she had killed the girls but didn't turn herself in.
If that pile of leaves was in the road, just how is she responsible? Why were the two little girls being allowed to play in those leaves that were in the road without adult supervision? Where were their parents?
Something just doesn't make sense here.. I must not be grasping an important fact.
Am I understanding this correctly??
Two little girls were playing in a pile of leaves in the road.
This woman drove through that pile of leaves that was in the road and killed two little girls.
She later found out that she had killed the girls but didn't turn herself in.
If that pile of leaves was in the road, just how is she responsible? Why were the two little girls being allowed to play in those leaves that were in the road without adult supervision? Where were their parents?
Something just doesn't make sense here.. I must not be grasping an important fact.
HUH???? You're defending this killer illegal?? I don't know just where the leaves were but if they were in the road it was at the edge i'm sure. Certainly not in the middle of the road like you're claiming. THINK
Something just doesn't make sense here.. I must not be grasping an important fact.
Why is an illegal alien driving In The first place ?
The story is pretty sketchy, where the hell were the leaves? In a yard, on the road?
She didn't know until her brother told her? How did he know?
Lots of facts not put forth.
Why is an illegal alien driving In The first place ?
