54 years for hit-and-run driver that killed 3 girls, mother (Chippewa, WI, USA)

[Lundren]

A Wisconsin man was sentenced to 54 years in prison Wednesday for the hit-and-run deaths of three Girl Scouts and a mother as they picked up trash along a rural road in 2018.

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Prosecutors had requested a 90-year sentence, while the defense requested 22 years behind bars.

Authorities said Treu was huffing from an aerosol canister before he crashed his pickup truck into the Girl Scouts as they picked up trash along a highway in western Wisconsin. He then drove away.

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The four people killed in the crash were Jayna Kelley, 9; Autumn Helgeson, 10, both of Lake Hallie, Wisconsin; Haylee Hickle, 10, and her mother, Sara Jo Schneider, 32, both of the Town of Lafayette, Wisconsin.

A 10-year-old girl was injured in the crash and was hospitalized for three weeks.

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54 years for hit-and-run driver that killed 3 girls, mother

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man was sentenced to 54 years in prison Wednesday for the hit-and-run deaths of three Girl Scouts and a mother as they picked up trash along a rural road in 2018. Colten Treu, 23, earlier pleaded no contest to four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of...

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I feel like the entire state would do well to be this tough on all impaired driving, including drunk driving.

 

[MasterYoshi]

Not long enough.

 

[LilScooby77]

I'm assuming they couldn't get the Death penalty?

 

[Jakenbakin]

Oh man this makes me feel sick.

 

[clockworkinyou]

54 years still feels too short.

 

[NinjaScooter]

I'm assuming they couldn't get the Death penalty?

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Wisconsin doesn't have the death penalty (thank god) and he likely wouldn't have been eligible for it in a state that did anyway.

 

[Sunster]

as someone who's legs and hip were broken after being run down in the street by a drunk driver, good.

 

[LilScooby77]

Wisconsin doesn't have the death penalty (thank god) and he likely wouldn't have been eligible for it in a state that did anyway.

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Ok thank you. Still think he got off easy for murdering 3 little girls.

 

[NinjaScooter]

Ok thank you. Still think he got off easy for murdering 3 little girls.

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he could rot away in prison for 100 years and it wouldn't undo the pain he caused.

 

[LilScooby77]

he could rot away in prison for 100 years and it wouldn't undo the pain he caused.

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Very true.

 

[Dyle]

Perhaps the first time this state has ever treated impaired driving seriously

 

[bionic77]

Ok thank you. Still think he got off easy for murdering 3 little girls.

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He didn't murder them. You need intent for it to be murder. He did kill them due to his criminal negligence and made it worse by running away instead of trying to help. But there is a difference.

 

[LilScooby77]

He didn't murder them. You need intent for it to be murder. He did kill them due to his criminal negligence and made it worse by running away instead of trying to help. But there is a difference.

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I don't think the difference is really there. That's just my thoughts though.

 

[bionic77]

I don't think the difference is really there. That's just my thoughts though.

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I was referring to the legal definition and not giving any thoughts on how horrible this crime actually was, because its horrible and deserves every second of that punishment.

 

[NinjaScooter]

I don't think the difference is really there. That's just my thoughts though.

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bionic is speaking from a legal standpoint. It doesn't fit the legal definition of "Murder"

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

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