Woman sentenced for fiance's river kayaking death
GOSHEN, N.Y. — A woman who admitted to causing her fiance's death by removing a plug from his kayak before a Hudson River outing was sentenced Wednesday to up to four years in state prison.
Angelika Graswald, 37, received a sentence Wednesday in Orange County Court of 16 months to four years. She pleaded guilty last summer to criminally negligent homicide.
Graswald was originally charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of 46-year-old Vincent Viafore, of Poughkeepsie, who drowned while the couple was kayaking in April 2015.
Angelika Graswald, 37, received a sentence Wednesday in Orange County Court of 16 months to four years. She pleaded guilty last summer to criminally negligent homicide.
Graswald was originally charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of 46-year-old Vincent Viafore, of Poughkeepsie, who drowned while the couple was kayaking in April 2015.
The justification for such a short sentence must be for not wanting to waste such a beautiful woman in the prison system.
