FILE- In this June 22, 2016, file photo, jail officers Mike Evans, left, and Andrew Pfaff escort Charles Goodman back to the Hancock County Jail for holding after a jury found him guilty of two traffic charges in Greenfield, Ind. Goodman, a church bus driver who allegedly used cocaine before a crash near Indianapolis that killed a 6-year-old boy and injured 11 other people, was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday, July 20. (Tom Russo/Greenfield Daily Reporter via AP, File) (The Associated Press)
GREENFIELD, Ind. – A church bus driver who allegedly used cocaine before a crash near Indianapolis that killed a 6-year-old boy and injured 11 other people has been sentenced to three years in prison.
WISH-TV reports (http://bit.ly/29WnC2h ) a judge also sentenced 54-year-old Charles Goodman of Chicago to three years on probation Wednesday following his convictions last month on charges of driving while intoxicated and with a suspended license. A jury acquitted him of reckless homicide.
Goodman was driving a group from Gary's St. Jude Deliverance Center to a religious convention in Ohio in July 2015 when the 15-passenger bus went out of control, left Interstate 70, struck some trees and overturned. The crash killed Jacob Williams of Gary. Goodman broke his arm and jaw.
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