Throw the book at her,yes.But,unless the kid died or was crippled,life seems somewhat harsh.Proportionality in sentencing is important for many reasons.Life,or death for killing.Forty years for crippling.Less for what she did...or appears to me to have done.
I see it as attempted murder.
I am confident that the State of Texas will dispense justice to this woman in an appropriate manner “for the rest of her life”.
Why? We do not have punishment proportionality in many aspects of life. Kids are spanked for simple disobedience. People are fired for stealing meager sums. You can be killed for jaywalking. It makes more sense for sentences to be proportional to the desired effect.