ALBANY – A Schoharie County woman who drove drunk, crashed and killed her friend in Rensselaerville was sentenced to three to nine years in prison Wednesday as the victim’s devastated mother said she was “disgusted” with laws preventing a stiffer punishment.

Harley Kelly, 19, of Middleburgh, blew past a stop sign, went airborne and crashed into a large pile of rocks, immediately killing passenger Emily Tuck-Fydenkevez, 19, at Pond Hill Road and County Route 10 on June 9 about 2:40 a.m., prosecutors said.

Kelly pleaded guilty in September to second-degree manslaughter and driving while intoxicated. The maximum penalty under the law for second-degree manslaughter is the indeterminate term of five to 15 years.

Susan Bartholomew- Fydenkevez, the mother of the victim, told County Judge William Carter the sentence needed to be harsher on Kelly, whose crime she equated to murder. Under the law, second-degree manslaughter is considered a non-violent crime.

“ I ask myself how, I try to wrap my mind around the ridiculousness,” she told the judge. “The maximum punishment time allowed to be issued to defendants of these types of crime in New York State is insane. Insane. Absolutely insane.”

The mother said she was “disgusted with the current” laws.

“There is no justice for my daughter Emily at all,” she said. “There is none. Simply none whatsoever.”

Kelly, who admitted being at a party before the crash, drove with a blood alcohol level of twice the legal 0.08 blood alcohol threshold and had active cannabis in her system, prosecutors said.

Authorities said the two young women went to a party in Coeymans just days after they met people connected to the party on Snapchat. Three people were charged in late September with misdemeanor unlawfully dealing with a child, accused of supplying the alcohol in that party. The cases are still pending in Coeymans town court, prosecutors said.

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