CLEARFIELD COUNTY– An Altoona woman who pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle in connection with the death of her five-year-old son in January is being released from jail.
Jayde Renate Huber, 33, was sentenced by President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman to serve three to six months in the county jail with four years concurrent probation.
The charges stem from a motor vehicle accident in Covington Township, Clearfield County in August of 2020.
John Sisto, her attorney, filed a motion for reconsideration of her sentence, which was discussed in motions court on Feb. 14. He asked that she be given time served and released.
Her other son is asking for his mother to come home, he commented.
One person spoke about the accident explaining that she was with traveling with Huber in a separate vehicle, as they returned from vacation.
After the accident, Huber thought all the kids were fine until she opened the car door and saw her five-year-old son’s skull was damaged.
She screamed so loud the other cars stopped, the woman stated. She was traumatized and will “never get over that.”
First Assistant District Attorney Leanne Nedza stated that because Huber had lost a child, she felt she has spent enough time incarcerated.
At her original sentencing hearing, District Attorney Ryan Sayers commented that the commonwealth had withdrawn all the other charges because of her loss.
He stated: “If that is not punishment, then I don’t know what is.”
During motions court last week, Ammerman responded by noting that the boy’s father painted a less than favorable portrait of Huber when he spoke at the sentencing hearing.
“I get this is a terrible tragedy for everyone,” Ammerman said but added that she was driving recklessly and without a license. He took the motion under advisement.
On Tuesday, Ammerman granted the motion ordering for her to be paroled immediately and placed on home detention, according to F. Cortez Bell III, court administrator.
The criminal complaint explains that Huber was “traveling between 77 and 84 miles per hour” when she failed to negotiate a curve on Rolling Stone Road.
The vehicle went off the left side of the road and hit a pole before stopping in the northbound lane, facing west.
Although the speed limit in that area is 55 mph, there is a sign warning motorists to slow down to 35 mph before reaching the curve, police said.
