The Providence Journal / Kathy Borchers
Jessica Paden, center, listens as she is sentenced before Judge Netti C. Vogel in Superior Court Tuesday. Paden was driving drunk in a hit-and-run accident on Providence's East Side in April, 2011, that injured two Brown University students.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A judge Tuesday sentenced a woman who mentors the children of prison inmates to serve three years in work release and home confinement for driving drunk in a hit-and-run accident that injured two Brown University students.
Superior Court Judge Netti C. Vogel sentenced Jessica Paden, 32, for leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident with serious bodily injury resulting, drunken driving with serious bodily injury resulting, and driving to endanger with serious bodily injury resulting.
The accident occurred April 9, 2011, at the corner of Hope and Charlesfield streets on the city's East Side. Injured were Juliana Unanue of Puerto Rico and Amanda Chew of Singapore, both now 21.