A Portland woman who was driving under the influence before a head-on collision that killed her 5-year-old daughter was sentenced Tuesday, Feb. 3, to three years in prison.

Amber Shaleene Gonzalez-Riddle, 29, pleaded guilty Nov. 19 to criminally negligent homicide, two counts of third-degree assault and driving under the influence of intoxicants. The collision took place Nov. 20, 2022, on Highway 58, about 25 miles east of Oakridge, according to published reports.

The collision killed Zahavah Townsend, who had not been properly secured in a booster seat and instead sat with a lap belt across her stomach in the back seat of the vehicle driven by Gonzalez-Riddle, according to a sentencing memorandum.

Prosecutors said an autopsy found “this belt was the source of Zahavah’s fatal injuries.”

Two people in the other vehicle sustained multiple broken bones and injuries that included a spinal compression fracture and cracked sternum.

A Lane County grand jury in 2023 indicted Gonzalez-Riddle on a first-degree manslaughter charge, but court records show a mistrial last April on the manslaughter charge. Criminally negligent homicide is considered a lesser included offense to that charge.

Lane County Circuit Judge Stephen Morgan sentenced Gonzalez-Riddle, also ordering three years of post-prison supervision.

The sentence matches the recommendation of prosecutors after plea negotiations. A defense attorney for Gonzalez-Riddle argued for a lesser sentence, citing 13 letters written in support as well as factors like her current sobriety and parenting of a son born last March.