Parents are outraged by the homely prison life for the driver who killed her son: “What is this justice?”

A grieving family says that Colorado Law slightly missed an SMS driver and has failed her son, who was killed while crossing the street.

In August 2023, the life of the Stratton family changed forever when her 10-year-old son Oliver or “Ollie” was hit and killed by a woman who wrote an SMS during the trip.

“She wrote an SMS that day when she killed our son,” Clarissa Stratton told Fox News Digital.

“A text message almost every 22 seconds for more than half an hour,” she said.

In August 2023 he took his bike for a ride through the neighborhood. His parents said he was two thirds who crossed the street when a car got into him.

He later died in the hospital.

The driver who killed Oliver was Amy Weiss, a local middle school teacher. It later became known that the 54-year-old had written almost every 22 seconds in the half hour before the crash.

On March 7, 2025, she was convicted of negligent driving, which led to death and manipulation of evidence. It received the maximum punishment that is permitted according to Colorado's law: a year, at the same time served with a 364-day prison sentence.

“In Colorado, because this was charged as traffic offenses, SMS and driving as carelessly behavior instead of ruthlessly, although it is a targeted choice,” said Clarissa. “You put it in the same category as distracted by the sun.”

“People are convicted of theft,” she said.

Weiss received a work release, which means that it serves her time in a facility, but can leave for work, church or appointments. In addition, according to the Strattons, she successfully applied for the court to take part in the subject of her daughter.

“Every important moment of my child's life is over. And the judge didn't want her to miss her daughter,” she said.

Photos of the residential complex for women in Larimer County show the lifestyle that is made available to the inmates, which is granted an alternative sentence option.

The destroyed parents said that the legal system in Colorado seemed to concentrate more on the accommodation of the perpetrator than to honor the severity of her son's death.

“If they were convicted of such a minor indictment, it opens the door for these flexible conviction instead of the actual prison period,” they said. “The judge didn't want her to miss the end of her daughter. What is the righteous?”

After Oliver's death, the strattons have become legal reforms. Before the Senate of the Senate of the Colorado Senate, they said to support a draft law to increase careless driving, which led to a crime to death.

Although the lobbying led to this provision removed, the family remains determined.

“SMS and driving is the new drinking and driving,” said Clarissa. “We have to stop doing nothing.”

The parents said that they would continue to fight for other children in Olivers.

Her struggle led her to start Oliver's bicycle parade, a non -profit organization that tries to remember the streets through the formation of the community, the lawyers of legislation and the memory of victims like Ollie.

Oliver was the third child of the strattons in the close -meshed family of six years.

Clarissa said her son was “smart, funny, friendly, energetic, enthusiastic and very, very silly”.

His father Rod said Fox News Digital that stories from his memorial service illustrate his friendliness. A boy, he said, remembered how the 10-year-old noticed that he had stopped taking a break because he had always lost foot races.

Ollie offered to practice with him every day “so that he could improve,” said Rod.

“Ollie has a lasting influence on everyone who knew him,” said Clarissa.

Fox News Digital contacted the Larim County's Sheriff office to get a comment.