CANTON, Ga. (TCN) — A decide sentenced a 24-year-old lady to life in jail for fatally stabbing her 13-month-old daughter in what the decide referred to as a “heinous offense.”
Cherokee County courtroom information present Chloe Driver obtained a life sentence with the opportunity of parole for malice homicide, plus 20 years for first-degree cruelty to youngsters. The phrases will run concurrently. In November, a jury discovered Driver responsible however mentally unwell on expenses of malice homicide, two counts of felony homicide, and cruelty to youngsters for killing her little woman, Hannah Driver.
The Cherokee County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned on the time of the conviction that the jury “rejected the defendant’s madness protection and located that she was criminally liable for her actions.”
On Dec. 8, 2020, Canton Police Division officers responded to a house on Mountain Vista Boulevard for a report of a deceased toddler and an grownup with life-threatening accidents, and located Driver and her daughter in a bed room with accidents. Medics transported Hannah Driver to a hospital, the place she was pronounced deceased. Chloe Driver was taken to a special hospital in critical situation. About two weeks later, on Dec. 22, 2020, Canton Police Division detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Driver following her launch from the hospital.
In response to the district lawyer’s workplace, Driver stopped in Canton on the day of the deadly incident whereas driving from North Carolina to Florida. Driver was reportedly “a part of a cult” that comprised two males, three ladies, and the child. After they received again to her residence, Driver introduced her daughter upstairs and stabbed her within the neck. Hannah Driver’s father tried lifesaving measures on her till paramedics arrived.
Hannah Driver sustained stab wounds to her proper carotid artery, proximal esophagus, fourth cervical vertebra, and proper higher again.
Chief Assistant District Lawyer Katie Gropper mentioned in her closing arguments at Driver’s trial, “Irrespective of how hopeless you are feeling, irrespective of how determined you are feeling, irrespective of how offended you are feeling, irrespective of how annoyed you are feeling, you don’t get to commit the act of homicide, and that’s the legislation. That was a violent, heinous, horrible strategy to die. And I don’t care how dangerous your life is, you don’t get to do this to this child woman, and there be no penalties for you. She selected that life. Hannah didn’t. Maintain her accountable.”
WAGA-TV stories Choose Ellen McElyea instructed Driver at her sentencing, “A father or mother killing a toddler offends us on the deepest ranges.”
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