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Mother faces charges in crash that killed child (no license)
Worc Telegram ^ | 3/12/13 | Steven H. Foskett Jr. and Scott J. Croteau

Posted on 03/12/2013 8:28:37 AM PDT by raccoonradio

WORCESTER — The mother of a 3-year-old boy faces motor vehicle homicide charges today after a Monday night car accident on Franklin Street.

Jayden Figueroa, 3, was pronounced dead at a local hospital following the 10:14 p.m. accident at 432 Franklin St.

Jayden and a 7-year-old were trapped inside the 1992 Toyota Camry which was traveling at more than 70 mph before it crossed into the eastbound travel lane and crashed into a parked Honda Odyssey, according to police.

Jayden's mother, Christina Castro, 27, of 2 Wall Street Court, was outside the vehicle with another son, a 5-year-old, when emergency personnel arrived. They worked to extricate the 3-year-old and the 7-year-old. All three children were taken to area hospitals, police said. None of the children were wearing seat belts, police said.

After the initial impact with the Odyssey, Ms. Castro's Toyota struck a Chrysler Town and Country, which sent the Chrysler into a parked tow truck.

Ms. Castro was arrested and will be arraigned today on charges of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operations, speeding, leaving the scene of a property damage accident, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, two counts of child restraint violation, three counts of reckless endangerment of a child and operating a motor vehicle so as to endanger.

Last night, firefighters worked feverishly to rip away parts of the car.

At one point, someone in the crowd of police, firefighters and paramedics started yelling and signaling the number four, and personnel jumped up into the snowy hill behind the accident, frantically waving flashlights and looking behind trees and under vehicles.

Crews hoisted a young boy onto a waiting stretcher, as another person was rushed into an ambulance. Another person was whisked to a third ambulance on a stretcher.


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KEYWORDS: fatal; unlicensed; worcester
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>>traveling at more than 70 mph

This wasn't an interstate highway folks

>>None of the children were wearing seat belts, police said.

Responsible mom

>>leaving the scene of a property damage accident, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle

And if you enter 432 Franklin St Worcester MA on google maps, you will find that street isn't probably one with a 70 mph speed limit.

1 posted on 03/12/2013 8:28:37 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio; Andonius_99; Andy'smom; Antique Gal; Big Guy and Rusty 99; bitt; Barset; ...
Howie Carr list ping

>> unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle

Why of course.

2 posted on 03/12/2013 8:30:53 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

“>leaving the scene of a property damage accident,”

I don’t understand this. It says in the story she was with the car and another child when police arrived.


3 posted on 03/12/2013 8:32:39 AM PDT by edcoil (Half of every class gratuates at the bottom, they are now politicians.)
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To: edcoil; All
Worc. Police Dept said she had hit another car earlier and someone commented she _fled because she had no license_. That was probably the property damage situation

From the Official Worc Police Dept Facebook:

>>Investigators met with Ms. Castro at the hospital. Ms. Castro is the mother to all three boys. According to Ms. Castro, she was involved in an earlier hit and run accident just prior to her accident. Ms. Castro stated that she was traveling the speed limit just before she lost control. Evidence at the scene indicates that she was traveling at a much greater speed.

And a comment to that: >> It said on the news she rear ended a car previously and was speeding away because she didn't have a license. The car she rear ended was following her. What an idiot, a poor judgement ended with killing her youngest son

4 posted on 03/12/2013 8:38:09 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Any news on the driver’s immigration status?


5 posted on 03/12/2013 8:39:19 AM PDT by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: raccoonradio; Liz

illegal alien ???


6 posted on 03/12/2013 8:39:33 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: edcoil

She must have taken the five year old out of the car but the 3 yr old, who died, and the 7 year old were trapped in there


7 posted on 03/12/2013 8:40:03 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Tennessee Nana; DickBrannigan

Don’t know and I’d hate to jump to conclusions based on the last names of the mother and the sons—which are not the same. In situations like this (unlicensed drivers) Boston talk host Howie Carr (who is on vacation this week) plays a sound cut: a car horn playing La Cucaracha...


8 posted on 03/12/2013 8:42:50 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Tennessee Nana

Does that question really need to be asked?


9 posted on 03/12/2013 8:44:13 AM PDT by Road Glide
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To: raccoonradio

"Licenses? We don' need no steenkeeng licenses!"
10 posted on 03/12/2013 8:50:14 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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..... last names of the mother and the sons—----not the same.....

That's b/c they use several identities (they vote and collect piles of US govt money under various names).

She also knew she was in big trouble and falsified police reports w/ a fake name ----- she did not want to give one of her gravy-train identities for fear of losing money.

11 posted on 03/12/2013 8:52:36 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Tennessee Nana

Maybe Obama’s uncle was in the back seat??

Of course, just another incident to be swept under the rug of “a pathway to citizenship”.

If we ever get to REV 2 and win, we need do exactly what they did to the Torrey’s in NYC after the war, put all the dems, and illegal aliens, on ships bound for whereever they want to go. If they don’t want to give a destination, I vote for Anartica.


12 posted on 03/12/2013 8:56:22 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Ms. Castro was arrested and will be arraigned on charges of (1) motor vehicle homicide by negligent operations, (2) speeding, (3) leaving the scene of a property damage accident, (4) unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, (5) two counts of child restraint violation, (6) three counts of reckless endangerment of a child, and, (7) operating a motor vehicle so as to endanger.

YAWN---is that all? Sounds like an Obama pardon is on the table....in time for midterms.

13 posted on 03/12/2013 8:57:09 AM PDT by Liz
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To: DickBrannigan

That was my first thought, but doesn’t Mass issue drivers license to illegals?


14 posted on 03/12/2013 9:04:03 AM PDT by martinidon
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To: Liz
LAUGH BREAK---Ohaha's obsession with amnesty may run into some problems, particularly WRT illegals and drivers' licenses---some invaders use fake ID's to get licenses under a different name....which also allows them to vote.

So, by Ohaha forcing them to get licenses under their real names, state computers will run a photo-match check to see if the same person has applied under different names.

Voila, they get investigated for ID theft and have to answer to a judge---and get prosecuted under US law. This frequently happens when a former illegal gets legal. (Hat tip to Freeper REAGANSSHINYHAIR)

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REFERENCE The latino criminal underworld on US soil has more criminal enterprises than you can shake a stick at.

<><>ICE's "documents and benefits fraud taskforce" found a common practice among "impoverished" illegals is to buy several faked identities for several thousand dollars each----the illegal then votes and rides the US gravy train under several names.

<><> Jose Madrigal---the Washington staterapist---had some 30 identities. And probably voted and collected US benefits under every single identity.

<><>June 26, 2010 An illegal using multiple identities was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemploymet compensation. Manuel Mejia Ordonez, got eight years for conspiracy to commit mail fraud........and identity theft.

<><> Hilderberto Salinas sold state drivers' licenses issued out of the state’s Motor Vehicle Agency in NJ to illegals with multiple identities who did not have the necessary id's....among 40 people who participated in the widespread ring. "Impoverished" illegals paid $2,500 to $7,000 apiece for the licenses---which allows them to vote.

15 posted on 03/12/2013 9:05:42 AM PDT by Liz
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To: raccoonradio

She can’t possibly be in this country legally.


16 posted on 03/12/2013 9:07:17 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
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To: martinidon
but doesn’t Mass issue drivers license to illegals?

Not yet. It is coming. Probably just in time for the mid-terms or 2016.

17 posted on 03/12/2013 9:09:30 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
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To: raccoonradio

I’m jumping straight to the illegal alien conclusion. Why else would a 27 year old not have a license? Laziness? Not likely. Suspended license? Again, no because that would have been noted in her arrest. Only conclusion is she’s illegal.


18 posted on 03/12/2013 9:10:32 AM PDT by bgill
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To: raccoonradio
Ms. Castro was arrested and will be arraigned today on charges of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operations, speeding, leaving the scene of a property damage accident, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, two counts of child restraint violation, three counts of reckless endangerment of a child and operating a motor vehicle so as to endanger.

And two other charges... not being married to the kids sperm donor and being a MORON...

Was she trying out for the local NASCAR RACE? 70 mph on a local road!! The last time I did that was late at night when I was 17...in my 'Cuda

19 posted on 03/12/2013 9:13:10 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (More Republicans stayed home then the margin of victory of O's Win...)
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To: raccoonradio

She’ll likely bail out of jail and be in the wind, southbound.


20 posted on 03/12/2013 9:28:32 AM PDT by Vinnie
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