Posted on 06/20/2008 1:37:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The driver of a Ford Bronco that fatally struck a 12-year-old girl as she rode her bike home from her last day of school before summer vacation is in this country illegally, San Jose officials confirmed on Friday.
Joe Castro, the man who has helped raised Breanna Slaughter-Eck, said he was very concerned about the revelation.
"I'm worried that she just might flee now and walk away from all this," he told the San Jose Mercury News.
However, San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis says that his department has alerted federal immigration authorities about the case.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office has yet to decide if Adriana Fierro de Marin, 31 should be charged with felony vehicular manslaughter. She has been charged with driving without a license, a misdemeanor.
Slaughter-Eck was struck by a blue and gray Ford Bronco right off of busy Park Avenue about a block from her school in the city's Rose Garden neighborhood. Fierro de Marin was making a left turn onto Selborn Place when she hit and killed the girl.
Kelly Wierema arrived home from work to find the accident scene in front of her home.
"There was a chunk of hair from her a couple of feet from the car. They had to tape that down for evidence," said a grim Wierema. "I saw the car with the bike underneath it. There were two ladies sitting on the curb over there sobbing uncontrollably the whole time. I think they were drivers of the car."
Police say there is no evidence that drugs or alcohol were a factor in the accident. As standard procedure, investigators say any decision to cite or charge the driver won't come until the investigation is completed.
Neighbors say for years, they've tried unsuccessfully to get the city to install some sort of traffic control along busy Park Avenue. It's a major thoroughfare where drivers tend to speed.
"They drive so quickly. Everybody's in a hurry to pick up their kids or get to work. I know how it is, but you have to pay attention," said neighbor Lisa Garvey.
Residents say they'd like to see no left turns allowed to keep drivers from making the same left turn the driver made when she struck the girl.
"I'm just very sorry for the family. This has to be the very worst day of their lives. I just can't imagine," said Garvey.
A 12 year old girl cut down outside her home by an illegal alien unlicensed driver. And our "leaders" react by suggesting that this tragedy could have been prevented if only we accepted amnesty - that our "strong" immigration laws are responsible for "forcing" the woman to drive without licensing or training.
“Get used to it, demographics are destiny.”
Ah, yes...destiny....by whose determination? I’m not ready to let ‘destiny’ decide. That hasn’t worked out too well in the past.
Circa 1830
Elias Boudinot, as Editor of The Cherokee Phoenix, which was published both in English and Cherokee and read in the East and Europe, captured the Cherokee situation in just a few words.
“Perhaps Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were only tantalizing us when they encouraged us in the pursuit of agriculture and government. Why were we not told long ago that we could not be permitted to establish a government within the limits of any state? The Cherokees have always had a government of their own. Nothing, however, was said when we were governed by savage laws. Others say it is time for the Cherokees to submit to inevitable destiny.
What Destiny? To be slandered and then butchered? Yes, this is the bitter cup prepared for us by a republican and religious government. We shall drink it to the dregs.”
Another big “thank you” needs to go out to the excrement that employs these criminals, that provides them with government services at the expense of our own people, the churches that protect them, and the elected idiots that turn a blind eye to the presence of millions of illegals in the US, and their obligation to enforce our laws, secure our borders, and protect or nation.
One can only hope that those mentioned above end up being the victims of the crime that the illegals bring to our land.
I dunno Martin - I'm sure if we delved back enough generations we'd find some conspiring ancestors upon whom to route through your part of collective guilt.
Such is life for those who didn't spring forth from the forehead of Zeus!
12-year-old girlTHAT was bad enough...
is in this country illegallyThat doubles the crime...
"I'm worried that she just might flee now and walk away from all this,"Sorry, very obvious, but that is exactly what the leftists do in any situation they can't control, let alone ILLEGALS..
Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office has yet to decide if Adriana Fierro de Marin, 31 should be charged with felony vehicular manslaughter. She has been charged with driving without a license, a misdemeanor.WTF?!? (where's the WTF pic?!)
Police say there is no evidence that drugs or alcohol were a factor in the accident.At this point, does it matter?! a KID was killed by a non-observant driver.. ILLEGAL or not... it should not have happened.
That was not nice :/
True. But the truth is not always nice.
True. But the truth is not always nice.That is true too... unfortunately...
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