Former bishop of The Episcopal Church of Maryland, Heather Cook, 59 -- who caused the death of a 41-year-old father in a drunken hit-and-run incident two days after Christmas in 2014 -- said "sorry" as she was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison, the Christian Post website reports today (October 28, 2015).
Cook -- who was relieved of her position with the church earlier this year -- made history in 2014 when she became the first female bishop and second-highest ranking official of the Episcopal Church of Maryland.
On December 27, 2014, the car she was driving hit Thomas Palermo, the married father of two and a software engineer as he rode his bicycle in Baltimore.
Cook fled the scene twice and was later found to have been drunk and texting, as her struggle with alcoholism made national and international headlines.
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