Houston man gets 30 years for kids' drowning deaths
HOUSTON
Thirty-four-year-old /*Chanton Jenkins*/ learned his fate following
a sentencing hearing Thursday in a Houston courtroom.
Jenkins pleaded guilty to five counts of intoxication
manslaughter in May. He faced up to life in prison.
Police say Jenkins was driving drunk and using his cell phone in
April 2009 when he lost control of his car, which was carrying
seven passengers. The vehicle veered off the road and into the
ditch, which had been turned into a raging river by heavy rains.
