A traumatized young orphan drew pictures of her mother covered in red splotches and explained they were her final memory of her after watching both parents die when a boy racer crashed into them. Greg Ammen, 44, and Grace Spiridon, 42, died instantly when the car they were traveling in was wiped out by thenyear-old Cesar Morales in November The couple were miraculously survived by their twin daughters, Madison and Olivia, who were in the backseat aged seven years old at the time of the wreck.
The family had been just five minutes from their San Carlos, California , home when Morales careered into their Chevrolet Bolt after being involved in a street race.
Orphaned in the blink of an eye, their aunt Liza Spiridon and her husband Jeff Hodde stepped up to the plate and took the two under their wing. Speaking with the San Francisco Chronicle , Liza recalled how the two girls had coped with the sudden deaths. According to her, one of them sketched a woman's face with red splotches, recalling it was the final memory of her dying mom, covered in blood.
The two girls suffered from night terrors also after the crash, which Liza said would last for up to 15 minutes. The family of four had been minutes away from their home in San Carlos when Morales careered into their Chevrolet Bolt. Morales had been driving at speeds of 80mph before he collided with the family, killing Greg and Grace. Her and her husband Jeff would be woken up by the sound of the two girls screaming.
They would also avoided driving near the scene of the crash incase of triggers, but police cars, fire trucks, fires and sirens were harder to escape. Liza told the outlet: 'We're the second set of parents. It's kind of like, 'You have your parents in heaven, and you have us now. As the grieved their parents deaths, the family had the painstaking process of two criminal cases moving slowly through the courts. The two cases were against Morales who last month was sentenced to 90 days of electronic home monitoring with his parents, after being incarcerated in a Juvenile Hall since the deaths.
