"Today, in a Brooklyn courthouse, Miriam Yarimi, the wigmaker and internet influencer who killed a mother and two of her kids earlier this year on Ocean Parkway, will be sentenced to three-to-nine years after her guilty plea on three counts of manslaughter. You can flip through the other news outlets if you want the tabloid treatment of how this unlicensed driver with (as Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez put it), "a desire for social media fame""
"The letter is eloquent, but ultimately clangs discordantly against the rim of true justice and delivers a glancing blow against society's willful inability to address depravity such as Yarimi's, no matter how blatantly it plays out in public (indeed, Yarimi was filming a reality TV show in the days before the crash, Streetsblog has learned, despite clear evidence of real estate and vehicular fraud)."
Miriam Yarimi, an unlicensed driver and internet influencer, killed a mother and two children on Ocean Parkway while appearing to seek social media fame. Yarimi pleaded guilty to three counts of manslaughter and is slated to receive a three-to-nine-year sentence after prosecutors sought five-to-15 years. The prosecutor characterized the crash as impressively reckless and selfish and described the vehicle as a two-ton weapon. Critics argue the reduced sentence fails to deliver true justice or to deter similar conduct, point to road design and enforcement gaps that enable such behavior, and note proposed policy changes such as speed-limiting devices for dangerous drivers.
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