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Owls Head Man Sentenced in Fatal Car Accident


Rockland - A man from Owls Head will spend 15 days in jail for his role in a car crash that killed his 17-year old passenger last year.

Knox County District Attorney Geoffrey Rushlau says 18-year old Evan Altiero, who was 17 at the time of the crash, pleaded guilty yesterday to reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon.

Altiero was originally charged with manslaughter.

Altiero was charged as a juvenile in the accident that killed Aleisha Sonksen of Owls Head.

Rushlau says Altiero's license is also suspended for four years.

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This plea agreement does not do justice. The biggest impact on the driver is loss of his license for 4 years. He moved out of state his senior year to get away from this, but would take his mother's car w/o permission when he would visit Rockland. Read his Facebook page and you will see that Alteiro shows no remorse about this and uses some pretty foul language to express himself. He was not supposed to be driving this car until he was 18, but both of his parents--who are divorced-- looked the other way and let him drive it whenever he felt like it. His mother, by the way, was jailed for OUI earlier in the year. His dad has been lucky not to have been caught. Alteiro and his family have done nothing to reach out to the young girl's family. They are more interested that their son got into Vassar on a free scholarship than in apologizing and comforting the family on its loss. Why aren't parents made to pay a criminal penalty when their teenage kids cannot?
OnTheRock OnTheRock 09/03/2012 10:12 am

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