A Canadian woman who stopped her car on a highway to rescue ducklings- which caused the deaths of a motorcyclist and his daughter- was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Thursday.

Emma Czornobaj, 26, was also ordered to perform 240 hours of community service and is banned from driving for the next decade, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

The Montreal native faced a nine-month sentence when she was found guilty of two counts of criminal negligence causing death and two counts of dangerous driving for the June 2010 incident on a provincial highway in Candiac, a suburb in Quebec province.

Czornobaj was headed westbound when she came across seven ducklings and stopped her Honda in the left lane to make sure they safely crossed the road, according to USA Today.

Andre Roy, who was driving his motorcycle, crashed into the back of the Honda, killing him and his 16-year-old daughter Jessie who was riding on the back. An expert testified that Roy, 50, was driving at 65 miles-per-hour when he drove into the back of Czornobaj's car.

Defense attorneys asked for a suspended sentence for Czornobaj, a self-proclaimed animal lover who said she did not see the ducklings' mother and wanted to take them home, CBC News reported.

But the victims' family wanted a heavier sentence and said the defendant never showed signs of remorse even though she publically apologized.

"She never once tried to contact me," Pauline Volikakis, the victims' wife and mother, said according to USA Today. When Volikakis ran into Czornobaj in the bathroom once during her trial, "she held a straight face and looked the other way."

Czornobaj's mother said her daughter could never talk about the incident and that it changed her.

Czornobaj has filed an appeal against her conviction.