In a lounge room in Melbourne's west I watched as Olivia Yassine, a single mother of three, lit a candle and placed it next to a framed photo of her son Jalal.

Tears streamed down Olivia's face for the son she says taught her unconditional love. "I lost my first, I lost my oldest, the boy who made me a mum," she said.

Thirteen-year-old Jalal had been visiting a grieving friend who'd recently lost his mother and sister when he hopped on his skateboard and rolled along the suburban streets he knew so well.

Olivia Yassine's son Jalal was killed after he was struck by an unlicensed driver.

Helmet on and eating a red apple, Jalal was like any kid in suburban Melbourne on his way to school, when all of a sudden he was hit by a car and his teenage body was flung onto the road.

Olivia told me how she watched as paramedics worked on her son for 45 minutes before the devastating scene that haunts her to this day.

"To see my son passed away like that. You're not meant to see your son zipped up in a black bag," she said.

Young Jalal had lost his life and Olivia was devastated.

Jalal was 13 when he died.

What has compounded Olivia's hurt even further though, is her experience with Victoria's justice system.

The person driving the car which killed her son was charged with unlicensed driving, but never for causing Jalal's death.

In a court hearing last Friday, Olivia says her victim impact statement was "read out like a shopping list," there was no heart, no emotion for her. She feels dismissed and betrayed.

And she says when she heard the magistrate indicate that the driver would receive a Community Corrections Order for getting behind the wheel unlicensed the day her son was killed, it was the final kick in the guts.

"I believe she deserves a jail term because driving unlicensed, let alone hitting and killing someone and on top of that having a history of doing it, how can you not get some sort of jail?" she said.

The woman driving the car that killed Jalal was charged with unlicensed driving.

Australian Bureau of Statistics data has revealed Victoria handed out 40 percent of Community Service Orders Australia-wide.

The Victorian Attorney General Martin Pakula says people shouldn't be quick to anger, and he claims there's good reason the statistics make Victoria stand out.

"In other states where they're not handing out community corrections orders, they're still handing out suspended sentences," he said.

"Now when they were abolished in Victoria and effectively replaced by community corrections orders by the government, understandably you saw a spike in community corrections orders issue."

Victoria handed out 40 percent of all Australia's correction orders.

Statements like that are cold comfort to people like Olivia though who argue magistrates and judges shouldn't be handing out non-custodial sentences to begin with, and it appears some of the community is with her.

Angry community members will protest outside the Sunshine Magistrates Court next Tuesday, the same day the driver who was behind the wheel when Jalal Yassine-Naja was killed is handed her punishment.

Understandably it will be an extremely stressful day for Olivia Yassine, who feels the justice system has forgotten her.

And such is the torturous day to day life of a grieving mother that Olivia's heartache next Tuesday cannot compare to what she'll face on Wednesday.