With the family left with just recollections and photos of the teen, Kiea’s distraught mother disclosed that her headstone was her 18th birthday present.
Frankie, Kiea’s father, who attempted to resuscitate the two adolescents at the scene of the collision, called his child a “gift from God.”
He expressed his sorrow at the sentencing, stating that Kiea would be able to marry or start a family of her own and that her death was a “death sentence” for their family.
Dlava’s father, who had moved his family to Ireland from war-torn Syria, claimed that his daughter’s dreams had perished along with her, and that he had lost his heart and a piece of each of his children on that awful day.
He claimed to want ‘justice, not revenge’ and to want McGinn to receive the harshest punishment possible.
