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Missouri Governor Mike Parsons caused controversy recently when he commuted the Driving While Intoxicated sentence of Brit Reid, the son of Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid.
Reid was sentenced to three years in state prison after a crash that left a five-year-old girl with significant injuries. His blood alcohol levels at the time were well over the legal limit.
Now, the mother of the victim is speaking out about the commutation, and she’s understandably not very happy.
“We didn’t get (any) justice,” Felicia Miller told ESPN’s Xuan Thai.
“We went to court, we [were] told, you’re going to get justice,” Miller said in her first comments since the commutation. “He’s put away for a year and about three months. So we didn’t get [any] justice. It’s not enough.
“I know they say sometimes you have to forgive and forget to move on,” said Miller. “But looking at my baby every day and seeing my daughter, how she has to live, and then seeing how he could be back at home, comfortable.”
Miller’s daughter, Ariel Young, suffered a traumatic brain injury, was in a coma for 11 days and spent two months in a hospital.
Britt Reid Has Long History Of Vehicle-Related Offenses
It was the third such incident for Reid. He pleaded guilty to flashing a gun at another motorist in a 2007 incident, and while serving his sentence for that charge, pleaded guilty to another unrelated charge of driving while under the influence of a controlled substance.
Miller says that she’s worried he will continue to repeat this behavior.
“He keeps just getting a little slap on a wrist when you keep just letting somebody get away, get away, get away. They’re going to continue to do it,” Miller said.
Reid will now serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest until October 31, 2025.
Critics feel Reid’s sentence was only commuted due to his relationship to his Super Bowl-winning father.
“If it was reversed, it would have been a completely different situation,” Miller said. “If I was drunk and slammed into [Reid’s] car. He had his child in the car and his child was injured, it would have been over for me. My whole life would have been over.”