Regardless of what happens to the girl, the victims lives cannot be brought back. I doubt the length of her sentence will deter future mishaps from happening.
Even if she gets "only" 8 years, she'll have a criminal record, be unable to attend college (she was an honors student) when her friends do, and it would be hard to imagine any college accepting someone with involuntary manslaughter on ones record. Plus she will still live with the torment of knowing what she did for the rest of her life.
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