Editorial: Public furious over driver who killed girl in crash

Reports say Charles James Cahill, Jr., on July 27 was driving with a blood alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit and was going more than 80 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone when he crashed into the back of a stopped van and killed the little girl in the back seat.
Actually, she was fighting for her life for three days before she died Saturday at Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor.
Sumpter residents recall seeing emergency vehicles at Ace Hardware parking lot on Sumpter Road on the Wednesday of the crash as crews waited for an ambulance to bring young Victoria Mack from the crash at Martinsville and Willis to a place where a helicopter could land.
Cahill reportedly had a history of 12 drunk driving convictions. His driver’s license was taken away in 1990. He shouldn’t have been driving.
But some of the talk around Belleville is that the blame also should lie at the feet of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office for allowing this man with an unquenchable alcohol problem to be out on the roads instead of in treatment or in jail.
There’s plenty of blame to go around and talk won’t bring little Victoria back to her family.
One voter told us on Tuesday that he couldn’t vote for Prosecutor Kym Worthy even though she was unopposed, citing the light penalties her office works out. Maybe this death will make them think.