Forest Grove fatal crash: For teen charged with hit and run, 'difficult times are here'

oregonlive.com ^ | ctober 25, 2013 /updated October 28, 2013 | Emily E. Smith

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Before the Sunday night crash that killed two young step-sisters playing in a pile of leaves in Forest Grove, Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros, along with her boyfriend and brother, went to get something to eat.

Attorneys for Garcia-Cisneros said Friday, Oct. 25, that the teens went to Sonic Drive-In in Cornelius, where Garcia-Cisneros had recently been hired. She was supposed to start her new job this week.

From there, the three started toward home in a 2001 Nissan Pathfinder. Court records say Garcia-Cisneros was driving. The vehicle, records say, belonged to her boyfriend Mario Echeverria’s mother.

Garcia-Cisneros purposely drove through a large leaf pile on Main Street, according to court records, and felt a significant bump. At her home, blocks away, she asked Echeverria to check the SUV for damage. Her 17-year-old brother returned to the scene on Main Street and told his sister she had “run over a child,” records say.

Police say step-sisters Abigail Robinson, 11, and Anna Dieter-Eckerdt, 6, were struck while apparently lying in the leaf pile on Sunday. Anna died at the scene. Abigail died the next night at a Portland hospital.

Garcia-Cisneros and Echeverria, both 18, were arrested Tuesday evening. In Washington County Circuit Court, Garcia-Cisneros has been charged with two counts of felony hit and run. Echeverria faces one count of hindering prosecution. Records say Echeverria took the SUV to a car wash after the crash to destroy evidence.

Garcia-Cisneros, born in Mexico, has lived nearly all of her life in the United States, her attorneys said. She graduated from Forest Grove High School in 2012, and attended local elementary and middle schools before that.

[Vendome]

Yep.

[stinkerpot65]

I agree. If the leaves were in the street ...

[cherry]

this is horrible...but you know, if these were two old geezers all they would have to claim was a "medical" incident, or the frequently used excuse that they "accidentally" stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake.....elderly people can use these excuses and people just nod their heads....

but two teenagers...HANG UP!....

[jocon307]

“I cannot tell from the story exactly where the little girls were.”

Although I read about this before, I just now realized how late it was when this happened 8:30 at night.

So I poked around the site for an earlier article. Per that piece the girls were in the leaf pile, which spanned the street and the sidewalk/yard, but the cops think the girls were in the street and they do not think the car left the road. And the girl’s father was there with them, but either he was distracted or went into the house briefly at some point (that is how the article puts it, not clear at all where he actually was and it seems like he did not see what happened).

I understand that this was a terrible accident, but I wonder if the driver was some middle-aged white person if they’d get such a sympathetic write-up.

But nevertheless kids should not be playing near the street ever.

[GeronL]

The illegals should be charged at least with trying cover it up, not going for help and being in the country illegally