Jennifer Neville-Lake devastated she's not 'a mom anymore'

Jennifer Neville-Lake says she is no longer afraid to call Marco Muzzo what he is: a drunk driver.

"A drunk driver killed my family. And he admitted to it,"said the mother of the three children killed alongside their grandfather in the Sept. 27 crash.

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"I was always afraid to call him what he is: a drunk driver.Now I can say that and I don't have to be afraid to say that anymore."

Muzzowas driving an SUVthat collided with aminivancarrying six members of the Neville-Lake family on Sept. 27 in Vaughan, just north of Toronto. Daniel, 9, Harrison, 5,Milly, 2, and their grandfather, 65-year-old Gary Neville, all died.

He pleaded guilty Thursday at a Newmarket courthouse to four counts of impaired driving causing death and two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm. The 29-year-old was released on a $1-million bond with strict conditions.

He is due back in court for sentencing on Feb. 23 and possibly Feb. 24.

Neville-Lake could not say what a "reasonable" sentence for Muzzo would be.

"He took four lives from me. What's reasonable?"

At this time, Neville-Lake said she is unable to forgive Muzzo.

"Hechose to do this. He chose to drive impaired,"she said.

"Harrison, Daniel, Milagros (Millie), my dadthey can't be brought back. There is nothing [Muzzo]could say."

Daniel, the oldest of her three children, would have turned 10 Wednesday, Neville-Lakesaid while holding up a school portrait of the boy taken just two days before his death.

"He's not here with me anymore."

Neville-Lake said "every single facet" of her life has been destroyed, saying she does not feel like herself anymore.

Her relationships with her mother and husband have changed, she said.

She is expected to deliver an impact statement at Muzzo's sentencing.

"It'sreally hard to put down everything that I'm feeling, the total devastation of not being a mom anymore."