TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former elementary-school dance teacher was sentenced to two years of house arrest early Saturday for speeding away after her car hit and killed two young brothers.
Jennifer Porter pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of the March 2004 accident that killed Bryant Wilkins, 13, and his 3-year-old brother Durantae Caldwell. An 8-year-old sister and 2-year-old brother were injured.
Circuit Judge Emmett Lamar Battles said he weighed Porter's clean police record and the "extreme trauma" she endured during the crime in sentencing her to "community custody," which he described as "a stricter form of probation — essentially house arrest."
Porter was also sentenced to three years probation, 500 hours of community service benefiting children and psychiatric treatment.