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(NZ) Driver posts 'hide your children' prison Halloween photo after causing death of teen
Driver posts 'hide your children' prison Halloween photo after causing death of teen
By Edward Gay
14 December 2018 — 7:01pm
Rouxle Le Roux posted this photo of her wearing a prison uniform on Instagram, with the caption "hide your children" months after crashing into and killing a teen cyclist.
CREDIT:INSTAGRAM
An Auckland woman who caused the death of a teen cyclist later dressed in a prisoner's costume for Halloween and wrote "hide your children" online.
Rouxle Le Roux had been drinking and smoking marijuana on the night she got behind the wheel of a car and crashed into 15-year-old Nathan Kraatskow.
Le Roux was on her learner's licence. She and her friends didn't stop. They left the teen at the scene on Auckland's North Shore's Oteha Valley Rd, where he later died of his injuries.
Le Roux avoided a jail sentence when she appeared at the Auckland District Court on Friday, having earlier pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death.
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By Edward Gay
14 December 2018 — 7:01pm
Rouxle Le Roux posted this photo of her wearing a prison uniform on Instagram, with the caption "hide your children" months after crashing into and killing a teen cyclist.
CREDIT:INSTAGRAM
An Auckland woman who caused the death of a teen cyclist later dressed in a prisoner's costume for Halloween and wrote "hide your children" online.
Rouxle Le Roux had been drinking and smoking marijuana on the night she got behind the wheel of a car and crashed into 15-year-old Nathan Kraatskow.
Le Roux was on her learner's licence. She and her friends didn't stop. They left the teen at the scene on Auckland's North Shore's Oteha Valley Rd, where he later died of his injuries.
Le Roux avoided a jail sentence when she appeared at the Auckland District Court on Friday, having earlier pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death.
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