Karen Faye Honeycutt, 41, pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter in the death of Chloe Honeycutt and inflicting great bodily harm on two of her other children who survived the January 2011 crash.
“I think about her every day,” Honeycutt told the judge, speaking quietly through tears as she sat in the courtroom in blue jail clothing.
Honeycutt said she was sorry for what she had done, adding, “That doesn’t mean very much.”
“I wish that I could make things better,” she said. “I won’t get to see my youngest son grow up. This is just devastating.”
Written statements of support from Chloe’s father, Honeycutt’s aunt and several co-workers and friends were read in court.
Her attorney, Renee Rupp, said Honeycutt pleaded guilty to avoid putting her family through a trial and said that she had never seen anyone so remorseful. She said Honeycutt suffered from depression and had run out of her anti-depressant medication not long before the fatal crash. Honeycutt, who had been laid off from her job, could not afford to buy more and was “self-medicating” with alcohol, she said.
