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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A 43-year-old woman is the first person in Westchester County to be tried and convicted under New York’s Leandra’s Law. The provision makes it a felony to drive drunk with children.

The district attorney’s office says Marta Amaro-Morales of Peekskill was found guilty Thursday of aggravated driving while intoxicated.

Prosecutors say Amaro-Morales was stopped last May for weaving between lanes. Two of her children, ages 7 and 11, and a 4-year-old granddaughter were in the car. She was arrested and a test found her alcohol level was just over the legal limit.

The law is named for 11-year-old Leandra Rosado. She was killed when a woman drunkenly drove a station wagon full of children into a highway wreck.

Amaro-Morales could be sentenced to up to four years in prison.

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