it was just announced today that Phanthavong's family had settled with the Sensers just prior to the trial, but the lawyers kept it quiet so as not to influence the criminal trial (which is standard legal procedure). Apparently, they settled for up to the limits of her auto insurance policy. Which means that she will not suffer any true financial consequences and they'll get to keep most of their assets and go on with their lives once her sentence is up. So the entitled bitch gets off yet again.
I'm thrilled at the verdict (I was really starting to get worried about the long deliberations), but if she only gets probation or an otherwise light sentence, I'm gonna really be royally pissed. I hope she gets the maximum sentence, but I doubt that will happen. If she were Jane Shmoe from Kokomo, you'd better believe she'd be in jail now pending sentencing in two months and then have the book thrown at her at the sentence.
Before the trial started, I didn't think my opinion of her could get any lower. But it's gotten so low that a gnat couldn't crawl under it. I couldn't believe that they'd actually try to pin the blame on a stepdaughter whom she helped raise from a young age. And the whole "Amy-world" horseshit really frosted my cookies. How many of us have the luxury of just being able to take off and do what we want when we want with no consequences? How many of us have the luxury of living in our own world instead of the real world? Well, well, it looks like "Amyworld" has met the real world, finally.
And her account of the night of the killing made even less sense. Personally, I think she was drunk when she hit him. But we'll never know that for sure 'cause the bitch waited and waited and there's no way to go back in time and test her at the time that it happened. You will never convince me that she didn't know she'd hit someone. There is NO WAY that she could not have known. There's a huge difference between a construction cone and a human being, especially if, as the prosecution's expert witness testified, Phanthavong came up over her hood after she hit him. She just left him there to suffer and die like a dog. She didn't even make an anonymous call. A friend of mine is a recovering alcoholic, and she says that the family's dynamics looks very much like Amy is an alcoholic and the family's covering for her. That makes sense to me.
Can you tell this case really pisses me off and hits a nerve? I lost a good friend back in high school to a drunk as shit hit and run driver who'd been drinking all fucking day and hit her as she was walking back from walking a friend home from her brother's birthday party. The force knocked her right out of her shoes and threw her a good thirty feet away, across two front yards, where her two younger siblings found her after they went looking for her when she was late coming back home. The woman just left her there to die like a dog, didn't even make an anonymous call, nothing. Then the next day she and her family discussed how to get rid of her truck and hide the evidence, not even considering what she'd truly done or the girl's suffering family. Just like the Sensers. Except that the driver got seven years of jail time. I very much doubt Amy will get anywhere near even the maximum sentence of four years. Unfortunate.
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