ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The mother of a University of Central Florida graduate could barely contain her emotion Thursday as her family faced the hit-and-run driver who killed her son.
Investigators said Rose Pierre was behind the wheel when she hit Warren Cohen in September 2013.
Last month, Channel 9's Kenneth Craig learned Pierre struck a deal that cut decades off a possible sentence.
Cohen, a UCF graduate, was just shy of his 32nd birthday when authorities said Pierre hit him and left him to die on Kirkman Road.
"To learn the defendant left Warren there like a bag of trash and just kept going will haunt us forever," said Cohen's mother, Adele Cohen. "The pain and anguish we're going through since Warren was killed will stay with us for the rest of lives, and it's unbearable."
Pierre wiped away tears as she was formally sentenced as part of a plea deal that will put her behind bars for 10 years.
Cohen's mother told Pierre she has not one ounce of compassion for her as she told the room how she visits her son's grave every week and still can't believe he's gone.
"Birthdays are something we dread. Holidays are just dreadful, because it's so dreadful without him," said Adele Cohen. "There's a huge hole in our hearts, because we miss him every moment of every day."