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DA: Mother in DWI played guessing game about fatal crash

Carmen Huertas (shown in an undated photo), who

Photo credit: Daily News | Carmen Huertas (shown in an undated photo), who New York prosecutors said drove drunk, is in the hospital after a fatal accident on the Henry Hudson Parkway that left 11-year-old Leandra Rosario dead.

With seven children in the car, a Bronx mother sped along the West Side Highway while playing a guessing game with the girls in which she asked them to raise their hands if they thought they would make it home without crashing, city prosecutors said Friday.

That was the scene painted by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau of 31-year-old Carmen Huertas, who was indicted by a grand...

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