Colorado Prosecutor Offers Unlicensed and Undocumented Teen Probation After Deadly Crash

The Arapahoe District Attorney’s Office is defending its decision to give probation and community service to a teenager who was driving illegally and, in the country illegally, when he killed a woman.

The accident happened last July in Aurora. The victim, Kaitlyn Weaver, was headed home from work when a Jeep, barreling through a residential neighborhood, slammed into her car. The speed limit in the area was 45 mph. Investigators say the driver was doing more than 90 mph.

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She was 24 years old. The suspect was 15 years old and had other kids in the car with him. He was charged with vehicular homicide. Due to his age, state law shields him from being publicly identified in court records.

Weaver says the prosecutor initially promised to pursue the maximum sentence of two years in youth corrections {snip}

That changed, he says, when the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office changed hands a few months later.

Under the new District Attorney Amy Padden, Weaver says the teen was offered two years’ probation if he pleaded guilty.

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There’s also no financial liability, he says, despite his daughter’s medical bills, which came to nearly $1 million.

The Jeep was uninsured, and the juvenile’s mom says he took it without permission, so she isn’t responsible either.

Weaver says the system is broken: “Immigration and the criminal justice system and all these things landed together one day in Aurora and now I sit here today without a daughter.”

An organ donor, Kaitlin Weaver continues to live on in others while the person who killed her lives free. Investigators say his mom initially planned to send him back to Colombia. Weaver says he has now filed for asylum.

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