Shane Brolly, the 25-year-old driver in a DUI crash that seriously injured four Neshaminy High School girls, will spend 15 to 30 years in state prison for the crash in Northampton Township, Bucks County on March 27, 2021. Brolly, a U.K. citizen from Northern Ireland, was living in the United States illegally on an expired work visa and had been drinking in Philadelphia for hours prior to the crash. He had a blood-alcohol content of 0.21, more than twice the legal limit in Pennsylvania, and was speeding when he crossed into oncoming traffic to pass a vehicle in a no-passing zoning. Brolly also had a record of drunk driving in Northern Ireland prior to his arrival in the U.S., where he fled to avoid sentencing in a 2019 police chase in the United Kingdom.
The following story contains a description of a sexual assault and may be upsetting for readers.
Feeling better as she recovered from the difficult birth of her daughter, the West Side woman decided to take the 6-month-old girl for a late afternoon walk on the nearby Camp Chase Trail.
She was pushing the stroller on the path when she was confronted by a 16-year-old boy, armed with a handgun, who stole her cellphone and fled. Minutes later, he returned, forcing the 35-year-old woman off the path and raping her at gunpoint. I could potentially comprehend the motives behind a robbery, even though I had to console my daughter’s cries while he put a gun to my head, the victim said Thursday in a Franklin County Common Pleas courtroom. But she called it unconscionable that the robber would return to rape her while her daughter screamed for her and cried when I couldn’t respond.