CLINTON COUNTY, Ind. (WTHR) - A Clinton County teen will serve two years in prison and another two on home detention for crashing her car into a home and killing two sisters who were inside.
18-year-old Alia Sierra pled guilty in September to two counts of reckless homicide in the deaths of 8-year-old Callie Fullerton and her older sister, 17-year-old Haleigh.
The July 2017 crash devastated a community and family who is still trying to come to terms with the loss.
Sierra addressed the Fullerton Family in court Thursday, telling them she would never forget or forgive herself for what she caused and that if she could trade place with Haleigh and Callie, she would.
Nothing will ever bring the sisters back, not the countless tears their parents have cried and not Thursday’s sentencing of Sierra.
“She’ll go back to prison if she doesn’t change her ways, so nothing is going to bring back my girls,” said Callie and Haleigh’s dad, Todd Fullerton.
“If they killed her, my girls are gone. That’s the thing,” he added.
Sierra was led from the courtroom in handcuffs after sentencing. In September, the teen admitted driving recklessly at 100 miles per hour on the day she crashed into the Fullerton home, killing the sisters and injuring their mom as they watched television.
Todd Fullerton admitted it was hard to listen in court to Sierra’s attorney talk about counseling for his client.
“Our lives are destroyed and we’re worried about counseling and her ability to do, we just try not, to just try not to be hurt all day long every day,” said Fullerton.
It’s a hurt that runs deep, one the Fullerton family knows will be a long time in healing, if ever.
“They were amazing girls. They were so much more than the way they died,” said Fullerton of his daughters.
Sierra also apologized to her family, saying she was sorry for what she put them through.