State legislators hate to make laws that will bit them in the azz or family. A third time offense her vehicle should be taken and donated to charity, and after that ANY vehicle she drives will be taken. The child should have been given to Child protective Service and she should have lost her licence for a minimum of five year on the third offense.

NO!!! that won't work!! jails are too overcrowded & they will just let her off for.... "good behavior" Instead, here is what needs to be done first tie her tubes so she can't have any more kids. Then, take away the ones sh has with no visitataion rights . Then... CUT OFF BOTH HER HANDS!! & MAKE SURE TO DAMAGE THE NERVE ENDINGS SO SHE CAN'T GET PROSTETICS! THIS WAY SHE WILL NEVER KNOW THE FEELING OF HOLDING A CHILD. Also she may still drink (someone will have to make it for her & she will need a straw) BUT SHE WILL NEVER EVER DRIVE AGAIN!! THATS...WHAT THIS SICK B1^%H NEEDS!

It is time to remove the children from this woman. She does not have the sense or ability to drive w/o drinking and it appears she won't leave her children in the care of a safe adult. Again, personally it seems to be that in addition to jail time for the offenses, only supervised (by a licensed social worker) visitation with those children.

I agree this is obscene behavior, especially when you consider the child probably has FES so is sentenced for life with that disadvantage. Obviously punitive measures and lack thereof have not worked. Alcoholism is a disease and should be treated as such if there us any hope of salvaging this YOUNG woman (and not having tax payers pay for her existence forever). I think a lock down treatment facility...Punitive issues need to be included but some form of treatment must be included if there is going to be any hope. Might wanna start with showing her a PET scan or MRI of her brain and liver and her child's brain.

Agree with Paul. She is a total waste of a human being. Get rid of her.

I agree with Harold. They will not pass laws for things they themselves might get caught for. She had already killed someone and didn't learn from it, now she is putting her own child in danger. The child and any others she has should be taken away from her. Someone should invent an ankle bracelet for people like her that shuts off the engine to any car that she gets into the drivers seat. Anyone who has more than one DWI should be forced to wear one.

Sounds like maybe the previous prosecuters should be jailed.

how many people die when there is no drugs or liquor involved. I recieved my first dui three years ago. Nobody got hurt. but we have so many more important problems in the u s. How about that guy who just shot up the theater in colorado. He was completely sober. or that man that bit of that man face in florida. completely sober. or the judges that just past the obama care and to find out it will never have any effect on your life. (completely sober) I am sorry for those who have died from a accident involving a drunk driver. I also apologize to your family. My grandfather ended up dieing while he was drinkin and driving. The drunks are not the ones you need to worry about people

LAMAR - You are obviously under the influence now. How about the drunk driver who runs a bus-load of kids off the road, how about the drunk pilot who crashes the plane and kills all 300 people onboard? Mass murder doesn't require a gun, All crimes need to be investigated and prosecuted.

Sorry Lamar, but it sounds like you are making excuses for drunks. They need to be responsible for their actions. So do sober people who commit crimes. Saying we shouldn't be worried about drunk people is a joke. We should worry about anyone committing crimes and we should make sure they are held accountable for their actions. I hope this woman loses her child and finally her license to drive, which she should have lost a long time ago.

Should have thrown away the key 7 DUI's ago. Thank God her child was not hurt!

Couldn't agree more!! In 2008, we buried 3 family members, 53, 14 and 13. Many serious injuries to the other 5 passengers. Lost his liscence in one state and got it it another by not checking he had prior's. Now in jail for 40 + years, it took people to die in this case...take the keys, the car and the kids!

Lets see, she's never hurt anyone except the bruises of the prohibitionist group MADD. In addition, the NTSB has stated that adults over 65 have worst refuxes than that of a drunk driver. Should we arrest everyone over 65 who has a child in their car, or do you not know what you are talking about and just assume everyone arrested for DUI is drunk. Do you know that you can now get a DUI if you have any alcohol in your system and are not drunk? You sound like a Fox news viewer who believes what is fed to them instead of finding out the truth by seeking several sources. You don't deserve to have an opinion unless you seek several sources to find out the truth.

why does she even have a license-is wisconsin so backward that they do nothing to protect the public--this is gross negligIence on the part of their DMV/COURT SYSTEM

phyllis, I'm pretty sure she didn't have a license. Even with Wisconsin's lenient laws, she'd have been revoked. She was still on supervision from her previous prison sentence – which is actually part of the sentence, not a parole. She had many, many driving while revoked charges before.

I guess that's the big question here: How can you actually keep a person from driving? You can take away their license, but they will still get behind the wheel. You can take away their car, they will get another or drive someone else's. You can put a bracelet on them, they'll still drive. You can order an interlock, they'll get someone else to breath into it or borrow another car. Etcetera. Does anyone know of one absolutely foolproof, ironclad way to keep a person from driving a car, other than locking them in prison? And if that is the only way, when do you start and for how long?

Drunk driving is out of control everywhere. I am in New Jersey and there are stories like this every week. There is no way to stop these drunks from getting in their cars and driving.

"Getting" out of control? That's where it's always been. Things were actually worse before the legal drinking age went back to 21 across the board. For a long time Wisconsin's drinking age was lower than Minnesota's, and everyone went over to Wisconsin to get a snootful, and of course drove drunk back across the state line. Minnesota demanded action, Wisconsin refused to be pushed around and it took federal intervention to solve the problem. And I'd be a rich woman if I had a dime for every time I heard people from that area defend their "constitutional right" to barhop. What's needed is a change of attitude from the top down.

Lets see, she's never hurt anyone except the bruises of the prohibitionist group MADD. In addition, the NTSB has stated that adults over 65 have worst refuxes than that of a drunk driver. Should we arrest everyone over 65 who has a child in their car, or do you not know what you are talking about and just assume everyone arrested for DUI is drunk. Do you know that you can now get a DUI if you have any alcohol in your system and are not drunk? You sound like a Fox news viewer who believes what is fed to them instead of finding out the truth by seeking several sources. You don't deserve to have an opinion unless you seek several sources to find out the truth.

Lets see, she's never hurt anyone except the bruises of the prohibitionist group MADD. In addition, the NTSB has stated that adults over 65 have worst refuxes than that of a drunk driver. Should we arrest everyone over 65 who has a child in their car, or do you not know what you are talking about and just assume everyone arrested for DUI is drunk. Do you know that you can now get a DUI if you have any alcohol in your system and are not drunk? You sound like a Fox news viewer who believes what is fed to them instead of finding out the truth by seeking several sources. You don't deserve to have an opinion unless you seek several sources to find out the truth.

I am also disgusted at all the charges the prosecutors dropped. She killed someone, was driving blind drunk with a baby in her car and is not in jail. This loser is just as dangerous as a psycho killer. A friend of mine spent 60 days in jail for shoplifting $15.00 worth of magazines, yet this woman is out free. Appalling is right!

She never killed anyone, you've been listening to the do gooders too much. and these are the same people who read th bible which states,"organized religion is evil" but they have been brainwashed to give their money, and do so regularly

Mr. Jones, I am not speaking for anyone but myself here. I don't believe in prohibition either. I don't see anything wrong with drinking alcohol at all. Go have a great time and then either have a designated driver or a taxi drive you safely home. I DON'T believe ANYONE should be behind the wheel of a vehicle if they are impaired in ANYWAY!! I also believe that ALL drivers should be retested every 10 years or so to make sure they are healthy and alert enough to operate a vehicle (any vehicle) that could cause serious harm to themselves or someone else. I have been on both sides of this issue with loved ones. One relative lost his license for a period along with short jail time and comm. service. I have also had a very close friend of my daughter's killed by a drunk driver. This person was 'just over' the legal limit for drunk driving. My daughter lost someone she loved and cared about and after 4 years is still struggling to overcome this senseless loss of a beautiful person. If you are impaired in any way, you should not be driving a vehicle. I am never going to change my position on this subject and obviously, you feel its ok to drink and drive and are not going to change your position on this matter. And by the way, The woman in this article DID kill someone when she was a teen. I wonder whether someone you love was injured or killed by someone who is "impaired" by alcohol, if your view would remain the same. Hmmmmmmm......

Mary, she has never hurt anyone, as most don't, you sound like another Fox news viewer who doesn't want to know the truth and believes you know best. I have drank and drove for 50 years without incident. Nothing even groups of nuts that don't know what they are talking about will stop me from having a good time. The older generation enjoyed going out and drinking and I will too. Wake up and smell the beer honey, drinking is still legal and more peoples lives are ruined by not being drunk than are those by being drunk.

Mary, I totally respect what you are saying and agree with some of it, and I think we both agree "drunk" drivers should be off the road and arrested. But when Americans can't go drink two light beers without being arreasted there is a problem. The problem is so bad that many people go to bars and say,"I'm only gonna drink a couple because I don't wanna be legally drunk". but when they find out how the law actually works, they realize I might as well get wasted as you will be arrested for being responsible and drinking one beer, the same as if you drank twenty beers. MADD pushed for these laws, and even their founder quit saying MADD wasn't against drunk drivers, but were a prohibitionist group. MADD has encouraged responsible drinkers to get drunk, because being responsible got the same results as being wasted. Want the link?

You sound like a Fox news viewer who believes whatever is told to you without caring about the truth. It's ashame you believe what's spoon fed to you instead of realizing a businessman who has a glass of wine at dinner will be arrested for DUI. Yea you don't have to be drunk anymore to be arrested for drunk driving, but people like you are the problem. Get drunk drivers off the road without punishing those who drink!!!!!!!! Know the facts before you post, and not just what Fox news or MADD has brainwashed you with.

I think you and I are on the same page. How much money has been wasted sending this woman through the court system 8 times, this being the ninth. She should have gone to the state hospital along time ago.

Ali I couldn't have said it any better. My cousin and her 1 year old baby were killed by a drunk driver, Although the drunk did get jail time it was for 2 counts of involuntary homicide, not drunk driving. It was his choice to drink and drive so it should be been murder in the second degree. No matter how much time he got in jail my cousin and her baby got a life sentence, as did my family.

You don't have to be legally drunk to get a DUI anymore. Did you know that? If you don't now the truth, you have no business posting anything on here. We all want drunk drivers off the road, but if your husband had one beer with dinner, should he be arrested and put in the paper as a drunk driver. Because that's what happening. Did you know this or has MADD brainwashed you?

We should imprison everyone who has even one drink(as that is what the law is now) and also imprison all our seniors who drive because the NTSB has proven that our senior citizens have the same reflexes as a drunk driver. Are you OK with that or has MADD brainwashed you to believe anyone who drinks is drunk?

I totally agree with you but since most people vote without knowing a thing about who they are voting, I feel that would be a waste of yet more money.

Please learn the laws before you post. It sounds good to arrest all drunk drivers, but you know longer have to be drunk to get arrested for drunk driving. You only have to have had even one drink. When your husband or boyfriend is arrested after leaving a restaurant for driving drunk, and it's put in the paper, even though he wasn't drunk, you only have yourself to blame as you supported laws you know nothing about.

http://www.inmatesearch.mkesheriff.org/ - go to this link then search evelynn williams & there she is! you cannot find her under evelynn brown - must be her married name or something - but if you look her up on ccap it shows she is also known as evelynn wiliams

you got that right florida too and you have to have a interlock device in your car.

Please learn the laws before you post. It sounds good to arrest all drunk drivers, but you know longer have to be drunk to get arrested for drunk driving. You only have to have had even one drink. When your husband or boyfriend is arrested after leaving a restaurant for driving drunk, and it's put in the paper, even though he wasn't drunk, you only have yourself to blame as you supported laws you know nothing about.

Be it alcohol or drugs, saying it is a disease gives them an excuse to keep doing it, it is a choice they make. What they need is a little bit of a backbone to stop. Look at how many have overcome their 'disease' and live fruitful lives.

Agreed!! Why does she not get charged with child endangerment as well?? Take that poor baby to a good mother before she becomes another sad headline!

Alcoholism is a disease,but it is not an excuse to get behind the wheel of a car and endanger others. Epileptics also suffer with a disease that makes it impossible to drive a vehicle. Most of them do not drive because they know the danger of having a seizure while driving. It's called being responsible. There are plenty of people who don't drive because they have a drinking problem. It's the irresponsible people who go drinking and still get behind the wheel. A good number of people do not want to face this issue because they know that they go out and have a few and still get in their car and drive. Until it hits home for these people, they refuse to take it seriously.

Boy, you have this right. I have a relative that has TWO children, both with fetal alcohol syndrome. She kicked the addiction, but too late. Now she feels so guilty that she waits on the children hand and foot, and they will never be able to support themselves. This woman is almost 60...what happens when when she can't drive them everywhere, feed them, and answer their every whim? Alcoholism is a nasty disease, and the consequences are especially disastrous for the off-spring. The state should have stepped in a lot sooner. Hopefully, there is not a bevy of these poor children left at home!

Well said Bev-- I agress

Jail time for having the baby in the car alone is enough. Never mind that she killed someone driving drunk as a juvenile. A total loser and a dangerous threat to everyone.

Right on, Mike

This isn't a political issue but if you want to go there, Wisconsin has been a Dem state since 1928. If you have a problem with laws or lack there of there is only one
way to get anything done. Phone, fax & email your congressman, rep & governor on a real regular basis.

Should lose the car long before 4th offence. You can't own a vehicle if you don't have a drivers license. Should lose the car they are driving on the second offense and if there is a third offence they should lose any other vehicles they own. If they drive anyone else's vehicle that should be forfeited so it will only be someone stupid enough or doesn't care to lose their car.

I am a blood-bought born again Christian and I think this woman has had too many breaks. That is why she is still drinking, sometimes we need to show tough love to help. Her baby needs a better home and she needs to be in a hospital till she can stop drinking. Only by Gods grace has this woman not killed herself and her baby. She has already killed someone and before she kills again she needs to be kept safe from the temptations of being on the outside.

Give the poor woman a break. Are you serious?

so if she killed a family member or yours or was driving with your 11 month old baby in the car would you be sayin the same thing - "give her a break"?????

That is the problem. She HAS BEEN GIVEN TOO MANY BREAKS. Perhaps if the first offense was served with sufficient sentencing, she may have thought twice before drinking and driving again. This is not casting stones, its protecting the public from untimely deaths and injuries due to her being on the road.

Tony, you are the kind of man who will go to heaven. The rest of these people think they have never sinned, and judge others. may God bless you.

Exactly! Don't forget she was arrested 4 times in 2004! Excuse me? 4 times in one year and she is still out there? Our system is truly screwed up if we allow our elected officials to turn the other way in instances like this! In 2004 this woman was barely 20 yrs old...She had 7 arrests before she was of legal age!!!! For Christ's sake do something you idiots!!!!! 24 bail jumps, several charges dropped, plus 9 arrests at 28 yrs of age??? WHAT ELECTED OFFICIAL IS RELATED TO HER??? No way this is happening and her being a normal citizen! NO WAY!!!!

Please learn the laws before you post. It sounds good to arrest all drunk drivers, but you know longer have to be drunk to get arrested for drunk driving. You only have to have had even one drink. When your husband or boyfriend is arrested after leaving a restaurant for driving drunk, and it's put in the paper, even though he wasn't drunk, you only have yourself to blame as you supported laws you know nothing about. Did you know the police department that arrests her gets more money for her arrest every time she's arrested for DUI, even if she's not drunk? Giving them a great incentive to arrest her. The ohio state highway patrol recently got so much extra money, they took a "training trip" in Hawaii. Does that sound like drivers got a fair shake?

This problem is not exclusive to Wisconsin, it is a countrywide problem. I am from NJ and we have the same issues. Until the sentences fit the crime, people will continue to drink and drive.

This is the attitude that keeps this issue from being taken seriously. I hope and pray that you never hurt anyone with your car after having only a couple of drinks. Obviously, you have never lost someone due to someone having a couple, but we did. One drink will start to impair your reflex response by a second and sometimes that is all it takes.

Drinking is not the issue. The issue is drinking AND DRIVING!! Many people go and have a good time and make sure they have a designated driver to get them home safely. Responsibility is what its called. I hope and pray that you never hurt someone else while driving under the influence of anything, pot included.

It is the prosecutor's responsibility to know the facts, evaluate them in accordance with the law and bring the proper charges. When the prosecutor requested 24 charges of bail jumping be dismissed in 2004 (after a homocide in 2000 followed by DUI's every year for the next three!), it was time for an audit of his/her bank account!

I worked in a prison and we had a couple of inmates that had been incarcerated for 10 and 15 years and got out on parole and was drunk when they got to the half-way house later that day. They just live for the day when they can have a drink.

But the prosecutor and the judge should have decided she would NEVER drive again after being responsible for a negligent homocide with alcohol at 16 years old!! It is a PRIVILEGE, not a right.

What were they doing to get stopped 15-16 times? You can't tell from looking at a car that the driver is drunk. They must be swerving, missed a stop sign/traffic light or something to bring attention to themselves in order to be stopped. They might think they are doing ok and just because they have been lucky enough not to have killed someone does not make it unfair. All it takes is one time to be at the right place/time and lots of lives could be affected.

Joybelle has it right. Just one drink affects your reflex response whether you think so or not. A few drinks is driving drunk.

John Jones, whoever you are, I am the editor of this site and if you ever again spam this site by posting the same reply to every other comment in the thread, you will be banned. I have far better things to do with my time than deleting your repetitiions. I have left your other comments up as part of the conversation. Please do not repeat this.

You need an education on alcohol impairment. No one is denying your right to drink alcohol, but once you take a drink, you have lost your right to operate a 2,000 lbs. motor vehicle.

There is no such thing a having a few drinks at your local establishment and driving safe. No one drinks because they love the taste. Depending on conditions a person can be affected by alcohol with just one stiff drink. Please don't respond with that crap about how you can hold your alcohol. And just because you don't get drunk after a few drinks it doesn't mean your driving isn't impaired. You just don't know it. Someone weaving all over the road is obviously drunk but you can be dangerous to others just as easily by reduced reaction time, poor judgement, improper following distance, etc. caused by slight alcohol impairment. Harsher penalties are the only thing that will deter drinking and driving.

Robert, I am sorry for your loss. Stricter laws is the only way to stop the irresponsibility of anyone operating a motor vehicle. I notice more boating accidents each summer because of irresponsibility.

John, sorry to deflate your ego, but the laws are on the books as to the punishments. How many times does it take for you before a pattern exists to lock that person away. The judges and prosecutors are given a lot of leeway in what they do, s maybe you need to know and understand the laws before posting. I don't feel sorry for you husband or boyfriend when you get your name in the paper. If you are going to drink and drive, you deserve the humiliation.

Sherylynne, it is not the prosecutor in Milwaukee County who has been lax. The woman did not grow up in the Milwaukee area and her early offenses and convictions were elsewhere, as were her dismissals. Within the laxity of the state's laws in general, Milwaukee County's prosecutors are probably the strictest in the state and have generally tried to convict this woman whenever possible.

actually she is not caucasian...if you look her up on the county inmate search website she is hispanic. look up evelynn williams, thats the name she is known as according to the states website

Gigi, Melissa, you're both wrong. She is neither Caucasian, black or Hispanic.

I also think about the people that get hard time for posession of marijuana while people who endanger not only their own lives the the lives of others even their children get a slap on the wrist multiple times just cause they know how to get around the law.

Even the police know theres no danger in a person drinking and driving unless they are flat wasted. however, every time they arrest someone for a DUI they get money, and if a person has been arrested before they get more money. It's all a joke to get money and anyone who drinks knows it. I've had 3 DUI's, was never wasted or a danger to anyone, did a total of 3 days in jail, and saw the judge who sentenced me at a bar the day I got out gettin wasted. He apologized to me but said because of groups like MADD it is now mandated he do so. What a waste of taxpayer money you nuts are.

Isn't it amazing how "drunk" people can run from the police at 100 miles an hour and drive GREAT. HUH, alcohol is still legal as many of you seem to want prohibition. Prohibition didn't work and MADD is now pushing for a BAC of zero. That's not gonna happen so deal with it.

Mike, my heartfelt condolences for the loss of your daughter. Taken way too soon by a killer. Your letter touched home for me. My daughter's best friend was killed by a drunk driver about 4 years ago. We have made it our crusade to fight for stricter laws for these murderers. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.

my sincerest condolences, but did you know the national highway transportation board states that people over 65 have the same reflexes of a drunk driver? So are all of these drivers killers? Anyone who drives, is at risk of having an accident, if you are over 65 and hit and kill someone it is called an accident, but if the guy was relaxing and having a few drinks after working all day it is called murder. However, I for one think if drinking with a few drinks is in you is a crime then we should also ban those over 65 from driving. I can send you the factual evidence from the national transportation highway board if you like. I know you are just looking for someone to blame, and I would do the same, but theres no difference in someone drinking and driving and someone over 65 driving. This is a proven fact that cannot be disputed. So if you wanna hate someone, be honest and hate all impaired drivers.

Dave,
She has already killed someone when she was a juvenile. I guess she needs to kill more than one person, or kill a relative of someone "important" for serious action to be taken. Its a down right shame.

No they know she's been drinking, which is still legal in the US the last time I checked, but they know she doesn't get drunk enough to actually hurt someone. With the new laws theres a big difference between drunk and being drunk enough to hurt someone.

Summertime 24,
The fact that she continues to get behind the wheel of a car after drinking is endangering the lives of all others. It is not that I am better than her, but she can not continue to endanger everyone around her including her own baby. SHE needs to take responsibility for her actions.

the system hasn't failed this woman - she has failed HERSELF and her children. Nobody else is putting that drink to her lips - she is. She has the ability to go for treatment without "the system" MAKING her do it. Unfortunately, she apparently doesn't WANT to get this monkey off her back or she would attempt to do so without being forced to do so. It's called taking responsibility for your own actions.

Until she does that...she has NO sympathy from me. Her children have my sympathy...her victims have my sympathy...but SHE needs a serious change of attitude for me to give her an ounce of sympathy.

Summertime24 you say none of us now the problems she has had. My son died of a drug over dose at 19. We tried to get him into drug rehab buy since he was over 18 he could refuse to go. We thought he had stopped using so we stopped testing him weekly and tried to be kind and made it monthly and before his next test he was dead on my living room floor having drank 2 liters of Vodka and some drugs he got off the street one being Ecstasy. Had the state let us put him in in-house care rehab he be alive today.We would have sold our house if we had to to save him but the law stopped us. This woman needs help and she is too far gone to help herself, I fear she will kill again if the state lets her out to drive again.

Do you drive drunk? You sound like someone who drives impaired often. Since I do not drive impaired I won't lose any sleep over laws used to protect me and all the other drivers who drive with their heads unimpaired. As for this woman who drove while she was still too upset to drive, she should have been arrested. Driving under great emotional stress is as bad as driving drunk.

"Please find out the truth before you speak, you just make yourself look ignorant"