The Georgia Department of Corrections will not house the woman convicted of causing the deadly Easter crash and her mother who was convicted of covering up the crime in the same prison.
Officials with the Fulton County Jail told Channel 2’s Tom Regan that Aimee Michael, 24, and her mother, Sheila Michael, will each serve their sentences in separate state prisons.
Michael, who was sentenced to serve 36 years in prison, was transferred to the Metro State Woman’s prison on Constitution Rd in Southeast Atlanta.
Sheila Michael, 53, who was ordered to serve eight years in prison, is now at Lee Arrendale State Prison north of Gainesville. Her husband, Aimee’s father, will have to drive 5 hours from Atlanta to visit his wife.
Last week Michael was found guilty of five counts of vehicular homicide, one count of failure to maintain lane and one count of serious injury by vehicle, hit and run.
Police say Michael was on an ice cream run on April 12, 2009 when she caused a horrific accident that killed 5 people, including 3 children, and injured a woman on Camp Creek Parkway.
Michael fled the scene of the accident but she was arrested 10 days later.
Photos: BOB ANDRES, BANDRES@AJC.COM
