Driver Who Killed Three Siblings ... Gets Early Release from Prison

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“Indiana Driver Who Killed Three Siblings as They Tried to Board School Bus Gets Early Release from Prison After Completing Bible Study Course”

An Indiana woman who struck and killed three young siblings as they crossed a road to board their school bus was
released from prison early this week. Alyssa Shepherd, 27, was released from the Rockville Correctional Facility on Wednesday
after serving just over two years of her four-year sentence, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Shepherd in the early morning hours of Oct. 30, 2018 failed to stop for a school bus on Indiana 25 next to the Meiser Mobile Home Park despite the bus idling with its stop-arm and lights fully activated, the South Bend Tribune reported. As she passed the stationary bus, Shepherd struck and killed 9-year-old Alivia Stahl, as well as her 6-year-old twin brothers, Xzavier Ingle and Mason Ingle. The collision also left a fourth child, Maverik Lowe, severely injured. Lowe was not related to the other three children.

In December 2019, Shepherd was convicted on three counts of reckless homicide, one count of criminal recklessness for aggressive driving resulting in serious bodily injury, and one count of passing a school bus with the arm extended resulting in serious bodily injury, court records show. Fulton Superior Court Judge Gregory L. Heller ordered her to serve a sentence of four years in prison.

Shepherd was initially slated to be released from prison in September 2022, but under Indiana’s state law governing jail credit, her sentence was reportedly reduced by six months after she completed a Bible study course offered by the facility.

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/indiana-driver-who-killed-three-siblings-as-they-tried-to-board-school-bus-gets-early-release-from-prison-after-completing-bible-study-course/

[Coventina]

1. I'd probably get a hide if I said what I thought about this.

[exboyfil]

2. So is a secular option available for those who don't want to take a Bible course

That aside - two years for this is way too little.

[sarisataka]

3. The initial sentence was ridiculous

But unsurprising. Crimes done with cars are always sentenced lighter.

[hlthe2b]

4. This kind of thing has a way of riling up communities and especially friends/family of the deceased.

and is why "vigilante justice" sometimes creeps in. I don't condone that, of course, but this woman might want to relocate as soon as possible.

My sympathy lies with the families of the victims. I can't imagine their pain and horror. Not to mention all those who witnessed.

[exboyfil]

5. Wiped out my kids

I might be thinking along those lines. I would also be up for some jury nullification if it happened to someone else's kids. Hate to admit it.

[Mike Nelson]

6. Hmm...

... this story make it sound like this prison will exchange jail time for Bible study... doesn't sound kosher, to me...

[Submariner]

7. I assume she lost her right to drive

for life. She can never be let behind the wheel again.

[world wide wally]

8. I guess she never heard the old saying, "Thou shalt not kill" before.