Overview
- Caris Adell Wade received 290 days in the Macomb County Jail with credit for time served, three years of probation, and 360 hours of community service.
- Wade pleaded no contest in March to reckless driving causing serious impairment and failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in serious impairment, both felonies.
- Prosecutors said the car punched through a Center Line bedroom in October 2025, threw the 9-year-old into the backyard, and left her with spinal fractures, a lacerated liver, and broken ribs while her toddler sister was unharmed.
- The judge ordered Wade to stay away from the child, her home, and her school, and warned that a probation violation could trigger a prison term of up to five years.
- The family alleges Wade had a 0.17 blood alcohol level after drinking at a bar and fled the scene before returning posing as a neighbor, and they are pursuing a civil case against her and the bar.