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A YOUNG mum high on drugs when she crashed her car, killing her two-year-old daughter and seriously injuring her baby son, will spend just 17 months behind bars.
Acting Judge Norman Delaney found special circumstances when he sentenced Tori Shipman, 21, to three years with 17 months non-parole after she pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of her daughter Jannali and the grievous bodily harm of her 21-month-old son.
Shipman, who had smoked marijuana earlier that day, fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a concrete pipe outside Willow Tree on the New England Highway on August 17 last year.
The little girl, sitting in the front without a child booster seat, was thrown about 20m from the vehicle and died while her brother was left with severe brain injuries. “The facts and circumstances of this case would be in the top 1 per cent of tragic circumstances that I have ever seen,” Acting Judge Delaney said.
“She will undoubtedly grieve for a long time, if not the rest of her life.”
Court documents revealed that in the weeks before the crash a concerned neighbour repeatedly rang authorities to complain that the young mum was letting her daughter climb around the car while she was driving. The woman said she began ringing DOCS and police daily but despite the fact the young mother was a suspended learner driver with a lengthy traffic record, authorities took no action.
Shipman told police she smoked “three to four bongs” that morning before trying to complete a more than 400km trip from Muswellbrook to Gunnedah via Tamworth.
Acting Judge Delaney took into account the time the woman has already spent in custody.
Source: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...h/news-story/133aecb1ffce32072a04cf99e77457ef
Acting Judge Norman Delaney found special circumstances when he sentenced Tori Shipman, 21, to three years with 17 months non-parole after she pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of her daughter Jannali and the grievous bodily harm of her 21-month-old son.
Shipman, who had smoked marijuana earlier that day, fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a concrete pipe outside Willow Tree on the New England Highway on August 17 last year.
The little girl, sitting in the front without a child booster seat, was thrown about 20m from the vehicle and died while her brother was left with severe brain injuries. “The facts and circumstances of this case would be in the top 1 per cent of tragic circumstances that I have ever seen,” Acting Judge Delaney said.
“She will undoubtedly grieve for a long time, if not the rest of her life.”
Court documents revealed that in the weeks before the crash a concerned neighbour repeatedly rang authorities to complain that the young mum was letting her daughter climb around the car while she was driving. The woman said she began ringing DOCS and police daily but despite the fact the young mother was a suspended learner driver with a lengthy traffic record, authorities took no action.
Shipman told police she smoked “three to four bongs” that morning before trying to complete a more than 400km trip from Muswellbrook to Gunnedah via Tamworth.
Acting Judge Delaney took into account the time the woman has already spent in custody.
Source: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...h/news-story/133aecb1ffce32072a04cf99e77457ef
