Tragedy was inevitable, Judge Bennett said. The magnitude of the tragedy, though, unimaginable.
Davidson, 30, pleaded guilty to several charges, including four counts of manslaughter.
On the day of the crash, he had spent more than 12 hours drinking, and he was three times over the legal limit when he hit the children.
He also had cocaine and other drugs in his system.
A letter from Samuel Davidson was read out in court, saying he was sorry.
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The court heard that immediately after the crash Davidson, who was uninjured, said: What have I done? I ve killed people. I m going to jail.
Forgiveness is often hard. It s not always possible. But it can begin a process of healing
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Daniel and Leila Abdallah have chosen to forgive the driver who hit and killed three of their children.
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As a clinical psychologist who works with couples, Everett Worthington was used to talking a lot about forgiveness.
But it wasn t until there were two sudden deaths in the Virginia-based psychologist s family that he began to develop a profound understanding of his life s work firsthand. I had started doing research on how to help people forgive and about what forgiveness is, he tells RN s Sunday Extra.
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Four young children who were killed in a horror drunk driving accident have been remembered in a heartbreaking memorial service one year after their deaths.
Antony, 13, Angelina, 12, and Sienna Abdallah, 9, and their cousin Veronique Sakr, 11, were all killed after a car ploughed into them in Oatlands in Sydney s north-west on February 1.
Samuel William Davidson, 30, had been driving the ute that hit the children - who were on their way to get ice-cream - and has pleaded guilty to nine charges including four counts of manslaughter.
Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the young lives lost at the Our Lady of Lebanon Co-Cathedral in Harris Park on Friday for the one-year anniversary mass.
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