JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. (KMOV.com) – Cecilia Williams is turning her anger into motion. She’s pushing Missouri legislators to assist a proposed new law that she’s named, ‘Bentley’s Legislation,’ right after her 5-year aged grandson.
“The primary part of Bentley’s legislation is monetary duty by the offender,” she reported.
Williams began doing work on new the laws that targets drunk drivers, just after an accident in April on Freeway 30 in Byrnes Mill that claimed the daily life of 3 loved types. Her son, Cordell Williams, his fiancé Lacey Newton and their 4-thirty day period outdated son, Cordell Williams II, were killed when the auto they have been in was rear-ended and went off the street and crashed.


A Fenton gentleman has been billed just after an toddler and his parents were being killed in the course of a late-evening crash in Jefferson County.
David Thurby, of Fenton, is charged with a few counts of DWI demise of a different. His blood liquor degree was twice the lawful restrict, and in accordance to courtroom files, he told a trooper he’d experienced “seven shots of Crown and h2o.”
Williams is now boosting the couple’s two other little ones, 3-yr outdated Mason and 5-calendar year old Bentley, whom the legislation is named after. She wishes to see a new legislation that would require drunk drivers who bring about the demise of a father or mother or mom and dad to shell out kid assistance to a surviving husband or wife or the kinfolk boosting the victim’s children, right until the youngsters turn 18-a long time aged.
“They have earned to get that payment due to the fact you are conversing about elevating young children that their mothers and fathers are no extended in this article,” claimed Williams.
Missouri Condition Consultant Mike Henderson, of Bonne Terre, programs to introduce ‘Bentley’s Law’ through the future legislative session.
“I do firmly believe that these individuals who are driving drunk and acquire absent the mothers and fathers of these youngsters, you can find bought to be some assistance for these children. It comes down to that,” he said.
Williams believes the month-to-month little one support payments would make an offender imagine two times before ingesting and driving again. She said a state lawmaker in Tennessee has agreed to introduce a ‘Bentley’s Law’ in that point out when the legislative session commences next calendar year. Williams hopes to take her combat in opposition to drunk driving nationwide.
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