Johnstown teen avoids youth prison in wreck that killed 3 friends - Columbus Dispatch
She wore a green T-shirt with an image of her 15-year-old daughter, Linzie, who was killed in a crash in June, and she wanted the driver in that crash, Jaylynn Rigio, to know that he wasn’t forgiven, calling him a “coward” because he wouldn’t look... She told Rigio that he had robbed her and her husband of being able to “buy (Linzie’s) first prom dress, watch her graduate, buy her a wedding dress or ever have grandchildren because you killed the only child I was able to have. Judge Robert Hoover did not abide by Bell’s wishes that Rigio receive the maximum sentence — to be locked up in an Ohio Department of Youth Services facility until the age of 21. Instead, Hoover agreed with Rigio’s probation officer, a letter... All three told the judge that treatment was preferable to incarceration for Rigio, who had his driver’s license less than three months when he lost control of his grandmother’s 2003 Mitsubishi Diamonte while driving more than. The car flipped, hit a tree top first and split in half, instantly killing the three backseat passengers — Bell, Michael Hoskinson, 17, and Cheyenne Spurgeon, 15 — and severely injuring Ashton Cody, 16, the front-seat passenger. Hoover placed Rigio with the Perry Multi-County Juvenile Facility, a secured treatment facility in New Lexington. Source: www.dispatch.com
