Family of injured son fights bus driver's parole

Описание: GRANT COUNTY, Ky. (WKRC) - A bus driver sent to prison for injuring 17 children in a crash is up for parole, and not everyone is thrilled.

Angelynna Young was sentenced to 22 years in prison, but could get out after serving ten. One victim's family will be at her parole hearing to say, "keep her locked up."

Cody Shively has trouble remembering the three months, multiple surgeries and extensive rehab from 10 years ago. But there are pictures. There are also lots of pictures of the bus crash that crushed his skull and injured more than a dozen other children.

Bus driver Angelynna Young pled guilty to assault and drug charges. She had cocaine and marijuana in her blood and got a 22-year sentence. In November 2016, Shively's parents were notified Young was up for parole in January. Shively knows what he will say when asked to speak.

“So I think she should serve all 22 because she gave me a life sentence of things I'll have to live with for the rest of my life,” Shively said.

Shively has four titanium plates in his head held together by 16 screws. He had to learn to walk and talk again. Nerve damage to his left eye gives him double vision. The traumatic brain injury changed the course of his life.

Tammy Shively, Cody’s mother, said, “It's hard as a mother to know that his dreams of going to college, he's really having a problem with it now because his youngest brother is in college and every time we visit him it's like, ‘I wish I was smart. I wish I could go still to college,’”

Tammy Shively has already mailed seven pages of testimony to the parole board.

Young has served nearly 10 years and some people say that's enough. They point out no one died in the crash on Dixie Highway. 27 people died in the Carrollton bus crash and Larry Mahoney served 10 years for that.

The night before Young apologized to victims and pled guilty, Rebecca Hampton and her husband, Earl, prayed with her in her jail cell. They have visited her in prison and think it's time for people to forgive.

“I would think it would be time to let her out and time to let her work on coming back into the community and being a productive person in the community,” said Rebecca Hampton.

Friday, December 9, the Shivelys told Local 12 News it was not time. Not yet. On January 23, they'll take that message to the Kentucky Parole Board.

Young will appear before the parole board January 24. She is scheduled to serve out her sentence in January 2024.