Driver to Remain Free Despite Victim’s Plea
Rejecting the pleas of a prosecutor and an 11-year-old victim, a judge refused to order a teenager to be jailed while she awaits sentencing for hitting two girls with her car, killing one of them.
Megan Coughran, 18, was convicted in June of felony hit-and-run and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter.
“I just think she should have been put in jail immediately,” said Chloe McAusland, the surviving victim, after a hearing Thursday. She wore a white dress and sandals that revealed a five-inch scar on her calf.
On Jan. 28, Coughran drove her family’s Buick station wagon into Amy Malzbender, 6, and McAusland, then 10, as the girls stood on the side of a road on their bicycles. Amy was killed.
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