Swansea Man Sentenced In CT Crash That Killed 3

SWANSEA, MA – A Swansea man was sentenced Tuesday for his role in a 2014 Connecticut crash that claimed the lives of a woman's two children and her fiancé, according to the Associated Press.

Gerard Dube, 62, was behind the wheel of a tractor trailer that rear-ended the family's car on I-95 in Waterford. Court officials said Dube failed to slow his truck for traffic that was backed up due to an earlier accident.

Baughnita Leary was badly injured in the crash, which killed her fiancé, 26-year-old Darin Robinson, her son, 3-year-old Dacari, and her daughter, 9-year-old Sanaa. At sentencing, Leary hugged Dube and asked that he do something special to remember the children and Robinson on their birthdays or the anniversary of their deaths.

"I forgive you," she told Dube, according to the Associated Press. Dube's wife also said in court that her husband is "in his own living hell" and wakes up screaming because of the accident.

Dube pleaded guilty in November to charges of negligent homicide with a motor vehicle and reckless driving. Court officials said Dube was a family man with no previous criminal record who was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the incident, and there was no evidence he was distracted, the New London Day reported.

Dube was sentenced to six months in prison followed by two years of probation.

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