"A Brooklyn wigmaker who plowed her car into a family of pedestrians last spring - killing a mother and her two older children - was sentenced Wednesday to three to nine years in prison. Miriam Yarimi, 33, pleaded guilty last month to three counts of reckless manslaughter for the deaths of 34-year-old Natasha Saada and her daughters, 8-year-old Diana and 5-year-old Deborah in Midwood in March. Saada's 4-year-old son Philip was critically hurt in the crash, suffering skull fractures, brain bleeding and eventually losing a kidney."
"Yarimi apologized to the victims' family in court and said through tears that she accepts "full responsibility" for her actions. "I'll have to deal with this for the rest of my life and I think that's a punishment in itself," she said Wednesday before Judge Danny Chun announced her sentence."
""Why should I apologize? I'm just as much of a victim as they are," she was recorded as saying on a call with her ex-husband in April while she was locked up at the Rikers Island jail complex. On other occasions, according to the DA's office, she said she felt she was being framed and debated whether to "pretend I'm schizophrenic.""
Miriam Yarimi, 33, drove into a family of pedestrians in Midwood last March, killing Natasha Saada, 34, and her daughters, Diana, 8, and Deborah, 5. Saada's 4-year-old son Philip suffered skull fractures, brain bleeding and later lost a kidney. Yarimi pleaded guilty to three counts of reckless manslaughter and apologized, saying she accepts full responsibility. A DA memo cited recorded comments suggesting little remorse and noted she ran red lights, used her cellphone and smashed into an Uber, sending her Audi careening into the victims. She received a three-to-nine-year sentence with possible parole after three years; prosecutors had sought a longer term.
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