She was accused of driving her car into a Center Line home while intoxicated, hurting a sleeping 9-year-old girl inside.
Now, Caris Adell Wade will spend nearly the rest of the year in jail in connection with the crime.
Wade was sentenced to 290 days in the Macomb County Jail with credit for 65 days served and three years of probation among other requirements, including participating in a defensive driving program, counseling and 360 hours of community service, by Circuit Judge Joseph Toia on Wednesday, April 29, according to online court records.
Wade is to have no contact with the girl and was remanded to the jail, the records indicate.
Wade, of Detroit, pleaded no contest in March to the felony charges of reckless driving causing serious impairment of a body function and failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in serious impairment or death.
A third charge, operating with a high blood alcohol count, a misdemeanor, was dismissed at sentencing, according to court records.
Messages were left for Wade’s attorney, who could not be immediately reached for comment after the sentencing.
Wade, 21, was charged after the county prosecutor’s office said she crashed into the home on MacArthur just before 3 a.m. Oct. 13, hurting Laila Breitshtrus, then 9.
Laila’s sister, then 22 months old, was not hurt, the prosecutor’s office said. Wade fled the scene on foot northbound toward 10 Mile and was apprehended.
A GoFundMe page set up by the girl’s family in October indicated Laila suffered three spinal injuries, a fractured nose and a cut to her liver. She was released later from the hospital.
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit woman who crashed car into house with sleeping girl gets jail
Reporting by Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press / Detroit Free Press
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