Not consequences that her father’s $400 million company can make go away.
Not consequences that her lawyers can negotiate into nothing.
Real tangible consequences that will affect her life.
8 months in the women’s division at the ACI is a long time.
It is long enough to think.
It is long enough to understand what you have done.
It is long enough to hopefully emerge as a changed person, but it is not so long that it destroys your life.
She will be out by August of 2025.
She will still be 24 years old.
She will still have her whole life ahead of her.
She can still go to school, build a career, and become a productive member of society.
But she needed to learn this lesson, and she needed to learn it now before her arrogance and recklessness killed someone.
Because make no mistake, that is where this was heading.
I would rather have her sit in prison for 8 months being angry at me than have her spend the rest of her life living with the fact that she killed 7-year-old Emma Rodriguez or 72-year-old Dorothy Henderson because she thought she was too important to follow the rules.
The three-year license suspension is designed to be meaningful, especially in Rhode Island, where public transportation is limited.
Driving is a privilege we often take for granted, but it is not a right.
