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Grieving parents whose 15-year-old daughter died in a car accident caused by her boyfriend visit him in prison, before hugging him and breaking down in tears.
- Family of teenage daughter who died in 2018 crash confronted boyfriend’s driver
- Georgia Larsen dies after her boyfriend Joshua Lewis crashed his car in Victoria
- The parents, Tracy and Shannon, hugged him in prison when they collapsed at the reunion.
A family whose teenage daughter was killed when her unlicensed boyfriend crashed his car confronted the driver in jail, before breaking down and hugging him.
Tracy and Shannon Larsen had been dealing with grief ever since they lost their 15-year-old daughter Georgia in a car accident in February 2018.
Her boyfriend, Joshua Lewis, was a learner driver and decided to take her to school when his vehicle hit a tree in Longwarry, southeast of Melbourne.
A family whose teenage daughter (pictured, Georgia) was killed when her unlicensed boyfriend crashed their car confronted the driver at the jail before breaking down and hugging him.
Tracy and Shannon Larsen (pictured) had been dealing with endless grief since they lost their 15-year-old daughter Georgia in a car accident in February 2018.
Georgia suffered head injuries and died in hospital, and Lewis received a four-year sentence to serve in a juvenile justice facility.
Tracy and Shannon said they felt “nothing” and that the sentence did not serve them, so they decided to face Lewis in jail in December 2020.
The couple recently opened up about their experiences, revealing how they were finally able to ask him the questions they’d wanted to ask him for years.
‘As soon as my husband saw him, he just hugged him. It’s something I’ll never, ever forget,’ Larsen said. abc.
The couple had been preparing for the moment for some time after learning about the Open Circle restorative justice program.
The program seeks to rehabilitate offenders through reconciliation with victims and, in some cases, brings them face to face.
Larsen described the lead up to the meeting as daunting, but said the meeting gave her the feeling that she finally had a say in the matter.
“He gave us the power to ask the questions we wanted in our own way, and for him to understand the impact it had,” he said.
Lewis was speechless when the indulgent Larsens said they wished the best for him.
The Larsens spoke with Lewis for two and a half hours and the conversation also allowed Lewis to share his guilt, the abc informed.
He read aloud a letter saying ‘so sorry’ for causing the accident and took sole responsibility for it.
Lewis was speechless when the indulgent Larsens said they wished the best for him.
“That was something very important to me, okay, maybe my life is worthless,” he told the public broadcaster.
Lewis lied about having a provisional license when he drove the car the day it went off the road and killed Georgia.
County court judge Mark Gamble sentenced Lewis to a juvenile justice facility saying he was too psychologically vulnerable for adult prison.
He served 18 months before being later released.