Former Episcopal bishop Heather Cook received a seven year prison sentence Tuesday for killing a cyclist in a drunken crash, after a two-hour hearing in which the victim's family directed their grief and anger at the disgraced clergywoman.
Cook, far beyond the legal limit for alcohol and sending a text message as she drove her Subaru Forester, hit and killed 41-year-old cyclist Thomas Palermo on the Saturday after last Christmas. She left the scene twice, a fact that weighed on judge Timothy J. Doory.
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