Mother of hit-and-run victim gets some closure

PORTLAND, Ore. - Though it has been 18 months since her daughter lost her life, Janet Tremain said she finally has a sense of closure after the man who hit her daughter was sentenced to prison.
   
Rosendo Corona-Rosales was sentenced to almost 5 years in prison Wednesday for the death of Kimberly McDaniel, 23.
    
McDaniel was jogging along a road in the Columbia River Gorge in July 2006 when Corona-Rosales hit her while driving. He was not in the United States legally.

Corona-Rosales took no action to help McDaniel and paramedics say that if he had alerted someone to her location, she stood a good chance of being saved.

McDaniel was found by passersby barely alive hours after she was hit and died despite efforts to save her.

A year after the fatal incident, detectives tracked down Corona-Rosales in California. He was then extradited to Oregon.
    
Janet Tremain says she has been through many emotions, including anger, but after seeing Corona-Rosales in court, she says she realized he was sorry for what he had done to her daughter.

In court, Corona-Rosales asked for forgiveness from the McDaniel family.

Following completion of his prison sentence in the United States, Corona-Rosales will be deported to Mexico.

Tremain said that once he is back in Mexico, she hopes Corona-Rosales' children will also never forget her daughter.

Tremain also thanked detectives for staying on the case when the only clue was a broken side-view mirror from the car that hit Kimberly.

Detectives eventually found the matching car and were then able to locate Corona-Rosales.

Note: In previous stories, Kimberly McDaniel has been referred to as Kimberly Powell.  According to her family, Powell was her married name and she was in the process of finalizing a divorce when she was killed.  The family prefers that she be remembered by her maiden name.