Stearns County man sentenced to 6 years for drunken-driving crash that killed unborn child


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A man who pleaded guilty to injuring a pregnant woman and killing her unborn child in a car crash has been ordered to serve six years in prison for the crime.

Christopher James Otte, 33, of Avon, registered a blood alcohol concentration of 0.201 after he ran a stop sign and crashed head-on into the woman’s car in St. Cloud on Feb. 13, charging documents state.

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Witnesses said Otte was driving “very fast” prior to the crash, and surveillance footage captured him also running a stop sign a few blocks away. Investigators determined that he caused the collision by swerving into oncoming traffic.

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