Woman gets up to 4 years in fiance's river kayaking death
GOSHEN, N.Y. (AP) — A woman who admitted removing a plug from her fiance's kayak before it capsized in the Hudson River but maintained she was falsely accused of intentionally causing his death was sentenced on Wednesday to up to four years in state prison.
Angelika Graswald, 37, pleaded guilty last summer to criminally negligent homicide in the death of her fiance, Vincent Viafore, 46, of Poughkeepsie. Her sentence, of 16 months to four years, means she could be released on parole as soon as late December, based on the amount of time she spent in jail awaiting trial.
"I loved Vince very much and miss him terribly," she said in a statement read by her lawyer, Richard Portale, after the hearing. "I don't believe I was treated fairly.