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IN LOVING MEMORY OF HEIDI AND SADIE TAKEN AWAY BY A DRUNK DRIVER IN AUGUST OF 2006..WHERE IS THE JUSTICE FOR ALL THE VICTIMS OF DRUNK DRIVERS???? PAY A FINE, DO AFEW HOURS OF SO-CALLED COMMUNITY SERVICE, YEAH RIGHT, I DON'T THINK SO! SENTENCE THE MONSTERS TO "ON THE SCENE" RECOVERY AND CLEAN UP AT THE SCENE OF A DRUNK DRIVER WHO HAS STOLEN THE LIFE(S) OF INNOCENT OTHERS! THE BABIES, MOTHERS, SISTERS, BROTHERS, FATHERS, SONS, DAUGHTERS, NIECES, NEPHEWS, GRANDPA'S, GRANDMA'S, WIVES, HUSBANDS AND SO ON....LET THAT BE A PART OF THEIR SENTENCE! LET THEM SEE "SOBER" THE AFTERMATH! FOR HEAVENS SAKE PEOPLE! WAKE UP! IF YOU ARE GONNA DRINK, FOR HEAVENS SAKE DON'T DRIVE!!!!! STOP THE MURDER OF INNOCENT LIVES!!!!! YES, MURDER!! PLAIN AND SIMPLE IT IS MURDER!!!!!THE MAN WHO HIT THESE GIRLS WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY FOR THEIR DEATHS :( AND IT WAS HIS 5TH DUI!!!! THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED!!!! HE WAS SENTENCED TO 8 YEARS FOR DUI WITH A BAC OF.15 OR GREATER AND HABITUAL SUBSTANCE ABUSER!!!!! NOT NEARLY ENOUGH!!!! HE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER!!!!
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Add to My Profile | More Videos ******PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO...ALCOHOL EFFECTS EVERYONE...EVEN OUR CHILDREN...GRAPHIC...**** NEWSPAPER ARTICLE~~~ survivers of drunk driving The aftermath of it is horrible' Family on mend after OWI crash hurts four Police step up enforcement for New Year's weekend By BRIAN HUBER - GM Today Staff January 2, 2006 Nikki Riegler, center, is surrounded by four of her five children, clockwise from top: Courtney, 14, Cameron, 12, Dakotah, 5, and Brandon, 7, while in an intensive care unit at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin on Friday. Dakotah, Brandon and Cameron were in a car with Russ Berg that was struck by a drunken driver on Christmas Eve. WAUKESHA - Nikki Riegler and her family are still waiting for Christmas. It won't happen for them until everyone is home from the hospital following a horrific Christmas Eve crash that hurt three of her children, their father and the drunken driver who is charged with causing it all. Saturday night, Russell Berg had custody of his son, Cameron, 12, and stepsons Dakotah, 5, and Brandon Caudle, 7, and was to take them home. However, after telling Riegler "give me 15 minutes," Berg and the children were struck by an allegedly drunken driver who police say crossed the center line on Highway 67 near Highway ZZ. Scott Prouty, 38, of Dousman was charged this week with four counts of injury by the intoxicated use of a motor vehicle. He has not appeared in court because he was not released from the hospital as of Thursday, Waukesha County Sheriff's Department Capt. Karen Ruff said. When Prouty was asked how much he had to drink Saturday, he replied, "Too much to remember," a criminal complaint said. "They were looking forward to coming home for Christmas Eve and they were robbed of that. They were so excited," Riegler said. "We're not having that until Brandon comes home." Cameron sustained a fractured hip, sprained foot and other injuries, and Dakotah suffered facial injuries, the complaint said; his mother added he suffered a concussion, as well. Russell Berg broke most of the bones in his face. Riegler said most of his face will have to be reconstructed. advertisement Caudle had multiple pelvis fractures, three holes in his intestines and facial injuries, the complaint added. Riegler said Caudle has rods surgically implanted and lengthened to compensate for scoliosis; the effects of the crash on that condition are unknown, she said. Caudle remained in the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin on Friday, when his siblings were able to meet with him for the first time since the crash. Warning to others Riegler said Berg was to have the kids home earlier, but she and her daughters were having a ladies' day and she said Berg could keep them longer. After the crash, she said she felt guilty about changing the time, as they would've been home earlier. "But then I got to thinking we have a right for my kids to go to their father's house and come home safe," she said. "And we got it taken away by a person who chose to be irresponsible." Ruff said police agencies will be on the lookout this weekend, looking to keep drunken drivers off the road. "There are too many people out there who think they haven't had that much to drink and 'I can make it home' and they don't. You don't want to see that happen this holiday," she said. "A lot of people go out on New Year's Eve and have a little too much to drink when they are not used to drinking. You don't ever want to wake up the next morning in a jail cell, knowing you sent someone to the hospital or killed somebody." With the holidays falling on Saturday and Sunday, "it's going to be a busy weekend," she said. Waukesha Police Lt. William H. Graham Jr. declined to reveal what plans police have in place for weekend enforcement. "We take a dim view of operating while intoxicated and the reason we do that is because of the number of serious injuries and deaths related to that," he said. "There is ample other ways to get home. If you are drinking you should not be behind the wheel of your vehicle. Find one of the other safe and reliable modes of transportation." The road to recovery John Berg, Russell Berg's father, said he didn't believe his son was involved in the accident at first because of the short time between he had just finished talking to him shortly before being notified. He quickly went from his town of Eagle home to Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital where Russell was initially admitted. He second-guessed that move - because the route took him past the accident. "I was thinking that he wasn't going to make it, after seeing the vehicle," Berg said. "It's not a good way to spend Christmas Eve." Riegler added that bodies will heal, but it might take a lot longer for the minds of the people involved. "Cameron is very upset and is very worried about his father," Riegler said. "He just got away with a broken hip but he heard his father crying and he saw his dad's face and that just traumatized him big time. ... "Dakotah is scared to get in the car, even for a trip around the corner to the gas station for doughnuts," she said. "The aftermath of it is horrible. It's not just emotional, its physical too, but I think the emotional will take longer to heal." Brian Huber can be reached at [email protected] (Freeman editor Lee Colony contributed to this story.) Alternative modes of transit Waukesha Metro Transit, W.O.W. Distributing and Miller Brewing Co. a 4:00 PM - 1 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment plain layout @ HOT FreeLayouts.com MyHotComments
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