Posted on 04/07/2018 9:38:23 AM PDT by Simon Green
The four Ohio teens who pleaded guilty to dropping a sandbag off a freeway overpass that killed a 22-year-old man were given a suspended sentence and ordered to a treatment center on Friday.
Marquis Byrd was the passenger in a vehicle that was hit by the sandbag dropped onto Interstate 75 in Toledo last December. Byrd was left in critical condition and died three days later in the hospital.
The four teens, all aged 13 or 14, pleaded guilty to either murder or manslaughter. The boy who dropped the sandbag pleaded guilty to murder while the other three pleaded to involuntary manslaughter, the Toledo Blade reported. The teen who pleaded guilty to murder was sentenced to the Department of Youth Services until he turns 21, while the teens who pleaded guilty to manslaughter were sentenced to three years in the Department of Youth Services.
All four sentences were suspended by the judge in favor of being sent to Toledo's Lucas County Youth Treatment Center.
"It's a treatment facility, for certain services, to provide so these boys change their behavior and can become productive members of our community," Judge Denise Navarre Cubbon said.
The decision to suspend the teens' sentences and send them to the treatment facility drew outrage from Lillian Diallo, the Byrd family's lawyer, who called the decision "outrageous."
"Suspended what? If you do what? So eight months you get to go home?" Diallo told Toledo ABC station WTVG outside the courtroom following the sentencing. "This child will never be at home. His son will never see him. His mother will never be able to say, 'Hey son, how are you? How's your day?' Touch his face, see his face. This is outrageous."
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Those kids dropped a rock...not the same as the sandbag kids.
Rock, sandbag, boat anchor - will kill you just as dead.
Judge Denise Navarre Cubbon
Are they black??
Another brame-dead liberal hag judge.
she’d look better with a mouthful of broken teeth.
See Post 89...Names only...no pics...
“The judge proves that you can be a moron and be a judge.
But then we all knew that, didn’t we?”
This photo is mucho kinder to her...and MY EYES!
Don worry Teens of Color, Granny Goodwitch gonna make sure you gets your Super Sugar Crisp
A woman judge. What a surprise.
Thanks for that link - just about what we could expect. I’m sure she’s proud of the job she’s NOT doing - as long as it sounds good, that’s all that matters. Feel good judging - that’s the ticket! Of course, she’s a proponent of exactly the same thing that FL schools went for and look where it got them!
“”Judge Cubbons program is gaining nationwide recognition; she was a lead panelist during the briefing where she spoke about alternatives used in Lucas County. Nationwide, there is an emerging trend of jurisdictions moving away from locking up children.
Alternatives to incarceration include diversion programs that focus on truancy and behavioral issues in school in order to prevent the school to prison pipeline””
See pics at Post 42.
If that doesn't scream "affirmative action Progressive" I don't know what does. She will have blood on her hands within a year of their release.
She could be a sister to a rabid dem liberal in my office.
Probably.
Neil Burnside would have retired years ago and sending Sandbaggers in stopped with it.
It is outrageous.
Because the murder victim was a man, the teens get off very lightly. Mens lives in this gdam country are worth nothing.
If it was a woman e gynocentric courts would have crucified the boys.
Sounds like a glorified healing circle to make sure the four killers see themselves as victims.
So exactly how many people do you have to kill before they decide that any punishment is warranted?
You would execute a 13 year old
Not me nor would most Christians
People here. Life in prison is worse than execution but its really not people get used to prison even bad Penitentiaries but Ive seen killers fear the gas chamber or the electric chair
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