Carly Rousso guilty in 'huffing' DUI crash that killed girl, 5

WAUKEGAN -- Carly Rousso, 19, was found guilty on all four counts of aggravated DUI in a crash that killed 5-year-old Jaclyn Santos-Sacramento in 2012.

Santos-Sacramento was walking with her family on the sidewalk along Central Avenue in Highland Park when she was run over. Rousso, then 17, was charged with aggravated DUI and reckless homicide in the case. She pleaded guilty to reckless homicide, but attorneys could not reach agreement on the DUI charges, so the case went before a judge.

At the bench trial, prosecutors played a videotaped confession in which Rousso admits to "huffing" a keyboard cleaner just minutes before the crash on Labor Day 2012.

"Not only she took the hit to get high, but furthermoe she took another hit. (To get) a higher high, maybe?" Judge James Booras said Friday. "It's her own words."

Rousso's defense attorney argued that the keyboard cleaner is not listed as an intoxicating compound in Illinois, and had hoped that technicality would lessen the charges from aggravated DUI. But the judge agreed with prosecutors, that Rousso bought the cleanser with the intent to use to get high.

Surveillance video from the crash that was played in court shows Rousso's vehicle slamming into a wall, backing up and striking the girl a second and third time. Also played, a 911 call by witness Dana Poncher, who said Rousso was unconscious behind the wheel.

Rousso is scheduled to be sentenced on July 10, 2014, on the four counts of DUI and one count of reckless homicide.