The distraught mother of two innocent victims killed in a horrific crash in southwest Sydney is demanding justice.
Alina Kauffman, 24, and her 15-year-old brother Ernesto Salazar died from catastrophic injuries sustained when their Toyota Echo was hit head-on by a Mercedes.
The Mercedes was allegedly travelling at high speed on the wrong side of Sadleir Ave in Heckenberg about 9.30pm on Friday when the crash occurred, and witnesses told police three men inside the luxury vehicle fled the scene.
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The driver accused of sparking the devastation, 20-year-old Johnson Kokozian, has been charged with two counts of dangerous driving occasioning death, among other charges, after handing himself in to Liverpool police station the following day.
The victims’ mother Angelina Kauffman told 7NEWS she did not understand how anyone could abandon her kids.
“I want him to suffer,” she said.
She also blasted others who recorded and shared her children’s dying moments on social media but did little to help.
Angelina, who honoured Ernesto and Alina at an overnight vigil in Heckenberg, has been sleeping in her son’s bed and hugging his clothes.
“I have to go to the morgue to see my kids. I have to go and identify their bodies although I already know it’s them,” she said.
“I just want to kiss my kids, I just want to hug my kids. I just want my kids.”
Ernesto had plans to be a social worker and Alina was a nursing student.
“My kids were beautiful people, good people. I’m not just saying that because they were my kids, they were going to do something to help people,” Angelina said.
Angelina will stare down her kids’ alleged killer at court this week and is now campaigning for change.
“Either change the laws for how people get their P’s or their L’s or the laws need to change where it’s more severe,” she said.
Alina had just picked up her brother from a new job he had only started a month ago, and the pair were only 100m from home.
Witnesses told police three young men inside the Mercedes then ran from the scene, before driving off in a Volkswagon Golf.
The Golf, which authorities believe was travelling with the Mercedes, was stopped by police about an hour later. The 18-year-old driver was questioned and released without charge.
Kokozian will next face Liverpool Court on Wednesday.
– with reporting by Robert Ovadia
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