A driver who mowed down a Brooklyn mother and her two children earlier this year was sentenced Wednesday morning. 

Miriam Yarimi appeared before a judge just before 11:30 a.m. inside Brooklyn Supreme Court, where she was sentenced to three to nine years in prison under a plea deal that was reached over prosecutors' objections.

"There's a lot of sorrow and pain and remorse, regret I feel in my heart," Yarimi said in the courtroom, adding, "I accept full responsibility for my actions ... I think about the victims every day."

"She spoke from the heart. She was clearly emotional. This, again, as I indicated before, this was a tragedy of unspeakable proportions, and I think that we hope that this can allow everybody to move on as best as they can and to heal," defense attorney Joseph Amsel said outside the courthouse.

An attorney for the victims' family said they were not in court because they didn't want to look at Yarimi.

"They are quite disappointed -- or, outrage would probably be a better word. Even the maximum sentence probably would not be sufficient in this case, but this is the the bare minimum," attorney Herschel Kulefsky said.

"A neighborhood devastated in an instant"

The March 29 crash along Ocean Parkway in Midwood left many in the community rattled. 

Prosecutors said Yarimi, 33, ran a red light and was driving more than twice the speed limit in her Audi SUV when she crashed into an Uber, then hit and killed 34-year-old Natasha Saada and her two daughters, 8-year-old Diana and 5-year-old Deborah. Saada's 4-year-old son Phillip suffered skull fractures and brain bleeding and had a kidney removed.

"This defendant had no business driving. She had no business whipping around the streets of Brooklyn," a prosecutor said in court.

"In my over 25 years as a prosecutor in Brooklyn, this still remains one of the worst collisions that I have ever seen on a New York City street," Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.   

Yarimi was driving with more than 90 violations

Investigators found Yarimi was driving with a suspended license, with more than 90 violations, 20 speeding tickets and $10,000 in unpaid fines. Her attorney had said this was her first encounter with the criminal justice system and described her as a mother and active member of her community.

After pleading guilty to manslaughter charges last month, Yarimi struck a plea deal with the judge to receive the lesser sentence, instead of the five-to-15 years the district attorney's office had pursued.

"People have stories, each one of us has a history, and we should all be judged not based on our worst moments. Not even based on our best, but we should be judged as a whole. And I think that's what the judge did over here," Amsel said.

Details of the plea deal have some again calling for changing the legislation around repeat speeding offenders -- specifically, the Stop Super Speeders Act, which would require repeat offenders to install a device that caps their vehicle's maximum speed. 

"We could have Natasha and Diana and Deborah, like, right here now had that bill passed," family friend Amber Adler said.

Adler was in court and said many in the community do not feel justice was served.

"I do believe that [Yarimi is] sorry," she said. "I just don't believe that sorry is good enough because sorry doesn't bring back Natasha and sorry doesn't bring back Diana and sorry doesn't bring back Deborah."