Guatemalan woman pleads guilty after killing four children in a bus crash in Minnesota in 2008.
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A Guatemalan woman who was convicted of manslaughter in 2008 due to a fatal bus crash that killed four children pleaded guilty to illegally re-entering the United States, Fox News reports.

Federal prosecutors said that the woman who was involved in the fatal bus crash in Minnesota that killed four children has pleaded guilty to illegally re-entering the country. The woman was deported after she served eight years in prison.

It was confirmed by the U.S. Attorney's Office who stated in a news release that Olga Marina Franco del Cid, 36 years old, pleaded guilty to one count for of false representation of a Social Security Number which she used to find work in the country.

Meanwhile, according to FOX9 Minneapolis, the plea of del Cid requires her to serve 24 to 30 months in federal prison before she will be deported once again in Guatemala. However, the decision of her plea is set for June 11 this year. 

Olga Marina Franco del Cid was taken into custody last November after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement found that she had returned to the United States to a home in Inver Grove Heights. However, it is still unclear for ICE of how long del Cid had been staying in the country since her previous deportation.

Franco del Cid was convicted of the crime of killing four children after the minivan she was driving ran a stop sign in February 2008 in Cottonwood Minnesota which is just about two hours west of Inver Grove Heights. del Cid first said that it was her boyfriend who was driving the minivan which was used as a school bus, it was later found that she had been staying in the country illegally.

Olga Marina Franco del Cid had already served eight of her 12 year sentence. Moreover, the sentence given to her was four counts of homicide due to vehicular accidents before she was deported back in Guatemala in 2016.

In a report from Duluth News Tribune, del Cid got married to a man from Minnesota which she has been corresponding with while in prison. According to another news outlet the couple has a 2-year child who was born in the U.S. but the couple is now going through a divorce.

Meanwhile, the number of homicide cases in the United States has increased in the past few years. In 2018, there were 15,498 reported cases of homicide and included was included in 2017 as one of the most violent crimes in the country.

Vehicular homicide is defined in the United Staes as a form of crime where it involved the death of a person other than the driver as a result of either negligence or the murderous operation of a motor vehicle. However, the penalties of vehicular manslaughter or vehicular homicide vary by the state except in the states of Alaska, Montana, and Arizona where they have vehicular homicide statutes. In states where there are no homicide statutes, the defendants can still be charged with murder or manslaughter in some situations.