element of forgiveness

Alright, so once again I went to CNN and looked at the top stories. This story definately caught my eye. The headline for it was: "Teen kills boyfriend: no jail time" okay what?!? So of course, I immediately had to read more! This story sounded crazy! Who can get away with killing another human being? I started to read and it was about this nineteen year old girl, Jasmine Cotter, from Oklahoma. She ran over and killed her boyfriend with her car. Boyfriend named Damien. This incident happened back in October. She then spent just months in jail until she had a trial to have her set free. How is this possible? A person killed another person and we are talking about them getting away with it? Apparently, she recieved a ten year defered jail sentence. This meaning that if she stays out of trouble and meets terms and conditions of her sentence, she is only charged with first defree manslaughter. Does this seem fair to anyone?! Not me, so I continue to read of course. Part of the judges decision was based on the fact that Anthony, the boyfriends father, forgave Jasmine and wanted charges dropped. When asked why he forgave her he said Jasmine carter was a wonderfuly young lady and they were together for three years. Some people make irrational decisions and that nothing is going to bring his son back but there is something positive that can come out of this. Anthony also stated that he was so proud of her and himself to at least focus on the positive that could come from this situation. Continuing to say that the fact of the matter is it was an accident and she had no idea what had happened when she punched the gas to get back on the road.
I went to google and I typed in a similiar story line to see if I could hear about anything else. Another video popped up. This one with Jasmine Cotter speaking herself. First stating: "If anyone has been in the room with me for more than five minutes knows that I loved Damian so much, I still love him." She went on to tell reporters that the night Damien died, alcohol was involved.
Okay, this seems nuts to me! How can you justify a girl runnng over her boyfriend? Let alone, forgiving her. I guess I might see it different if I were in his shoes. I just don't see how I could forgive anyone for running over my son. Crazy to see what people can get away with these days,