A Springfield mother is hoping for kind of charges against the man accused of killing her child.

Last September, Riddick Tudor, 10, was hit and killed just outside Campbell Elementary. Police say the man driving was Lonnie Yeager, driving without a license. But months after the crash, Yeager was able to go get a valid license.

In front of his classmates, her pride and joy was gone. Just like that.

"He was my only child," said Cherylan Noah, Riddick's mother. "I didn't have anymore, once I had him, he was, he was so perfect."

Indescribable pain from Riddick Tudor's mother, her little boy killed.

"He was on the cusp of being able to blossom into a full person and it bothers me so much that I wont be able to see him mature into a really good adult," said Noah.

She wants someone held accountable.

"That is the hardest thing," said Noah.

Police say the man behind the wheel that day was Lonnie Yeager, 36. He had never been licensed to drive. In 2007, He received a court appointed guardian due to severe cognitive impairment, including having seizures. And in 2015, he told police he had a brain injury and was never licensed to drive.

That September day though, police say he plowed a car into a group of students and teachers outside Campbell Elementary. The crash pinned Riddick to the fence. He's never been charged, because prosecutors say it's not as clear cut as it may seem.

"When I get letters back that this is a complicated situation, I'm like what is so complicated?," said Noah. "I want to know now.. and I've been waiting."

What happened that afternoon is clear cut. But why it happened is not. At issue is Yeager's conduct reckless as defined by law?

But, here's where the story becomes even more perplexing.

Within months of the deadly crash, our cameras captured Lonnie Yeager driving again. But this time we learned it was perfectly legal. He had walked into a Springfield license office post-crash and was issued a valid drivers license.

How does that happen? We traveled to the Missouri Department of Revenue in Jefferson City to find out. We know Yeager had already been deemed mentally incapacitated by a civil court in St. Francois County and had been assigned a legal guardian.

"When there is a situation where there has been a court ruling involving an individual, the court will notify us of that action," said the Department of Revenue Director Joel Walters. "And they will notify us that something has occurred which would make them ineligible and we will put the flag in the system. Now depending on the circumstances of the court ruling, we have different levels of success in regard to that notification."

In Yeager's case, he was not flagged. The director of the Department of Revenue says they were never notified of the St. Francois County court ruling. And Director Joel Walters says they should have been.

"I think we all have responsibilities for this," said Walters. "We're kind of focusing on that in this situation because we were not notified by the clerk, so they do have a responsibility to notify us. I think we also have a responsibility to proactively go out and seek the information and we are constantly trying to improve the process in regard to that."

Prosecutors tell us it is not the court's responsibility to notify the state.

They can volunteer to do it, but they are not required. And often, like in this case, an incapacitation ruling is not even in criminal court. So a prosecutor wouldn't even know about it.

Riddick's short life, and tragic death, are now leading to permanent changes.

"We are actually talking now to the organization for state courts in the state of Missouri about getting monthly reports that we can proactively comb through," said Walters. "And see if there is info in there that can help us."

It is not an outcome that could bring Riddick back or even have saved his life. But it could save another family the pain Noah lives with every day.

"That is the biggest thing with that," said Noah "That definitely nobody else will be able to get a drivers license if they have been determined somebody that has been deemed incapable of taking care of themselves."

We talked to Dan Patterson, Greene County's prosecutor. He says there is not a timeline for if or when charges could be filed. He says it is under advisement. Also, Yeager has refused interviews.

Now, there is a form that doctors and family members can fill out if they think someone they know should perhaps not be driving on the Department of Revenue's website. Click

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