The woman who indirectly caused the death of a motorcyclist and his teen daughter in Canada after she stopped in the left lane of a highway to herd ducklings to safety with not receive a life in prison sentence, USA Today reported.
Emma Czornobaj, 26, will spend 90 days in jail starting Jan. 10 and won't be allowed to drive for 10 years. She will serve her jail sentence on weekends and will have to complete 240 hours of community service.
Thousands of people signed a petition asking the court to go easy on the woman, though the maximum sentence could have been life in prison. The family of Andre Roy, 50, and Jessie Roy, 16, who were killed in the accident, have said Czornobaj does not seem to feel badly about what happened and did not apologize to them in a timely way. She apologized publicly to the family in July.
Czornobaj was driving along High 30 in Montreal on Jun. 27, 2010 when she saw seven ducklings in the middle of the road. In the left lane of the highway, she stopped her Honda Civic to make sure the birds were okay. Roy's motorcycle crashed into the back of her car while she was stopped. Andre Roy died immediately and Jessie Roy died later at a hospital.
Czorbobaj's mother, Mary Hogan, said that her daughter hasn't been the same since the incident.
"It was something she couldn't talk about or share with us at all," Hogan said. "She just couldn't accept that it had happened."
Her mother added that the woman was on the way to a successful life, and was on the dean's list in college. After the accident, she is now unable to land a job.
It changed who she was at her very core," Hogan said, according to First Coast News.
