From: Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS on

The penalties for all drunk driving need to be raised drastically, esp
when kids are in the car. Let's stop coddling these kid-killers.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view/20091023mom_ind
icted_for_dui_kids_death_in_crash/srvc=home&position=recent

Mom indicted for DUI, kid�s death in crash
By Associated Press
Saturday, October 24, 2009


NEW YORK - A mom accused in a high-speed drunken-driving wreck en route
to a sleepover had insisted she was fine to drive, taunted the kids -
asking who thought they would crash - and when they did, pulled her own
11-year-old daughter out as another girl lay dying, prosecutors said.

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau called Carmen Huertas�
behavior in last weekend�s crash �outrageous.�

He said Huertas, 31, brushed off warnings she was too drunk to drive,
piling seven children in her station wagon to drive them to a slumber
party. Then, he said, she played a morbid game as she sped at nearly 70
mph, asking the girls to raise their hands if they thought they would
crash.

Morgenthau outlined the parenting nightmare as he announced Huertas�
indictment on manslaughter, assault and drunken driving charges. She is
hospitalized with a shoulder injury and won�t be arraigned till next
month. Meanwhile, prosecutors said they might charge adults who noticed
her condition and didn�t stop her.

Prosecutors said after gathering a half-dozen of her daughter�s friends
for a weekend sleepover at her Bronx home, she took them to a family
birthday party in Manhattan, where she downed enough cognac that her ex-
boyfriend told the father of her toddler son she wasn�t fit to drive.

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