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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I can’t stand NBC but here you go:
Would love to see the rate of re-arrests, school suspensions, and other assorted problems from the kids she is letting off.
I'd settle for them not having another free day in their life.
Ha! The exception proves the rule (not really...I always thought that was a stupid aphorism)...
Good lord that is even more heinous than sandbagging.
No question what you are up to when you hurl a boulder through a car.
Then they must have been from ‘good’ families to get preferred treatment from the judge. There was an absence of ‘codeword’ names or pictures in the story I read
Start with the judge
This is the same type of crap that led to Parkland Shooter...turning a blind eye to crime to pretend the community is getting better when in truth it is chaos and mayhem.
I agree with the way you have stated your perspective here.
I’m not comfortable with altering the premeditation requirement of first degree murder.
There was a horrible moral deficiency that led to this act. While I don’t think they should be executed or even given long prison sentences, it’s an injustice to simply sentence them to “community involvement”.
That was NOT the group...
Once again black lives don’t matter when taken by another black life.
Hanged by the neck until dead.
That kind of ‘suspended’ sentence?
The Black Robes are getting further and further out there.
The punishment must be hard enough to dissuade others from doing such a thing.
Damned straight I’d pull the lever!
How many of these little monsters you want to send off to “reform school” to become polished felons looking to reek havoc on society once they are cut loose on society?
Take a good look at Trayvon Martin and the Parkland shooter’s history for what the future holds for the sandbaggers
This judge doesn’t have the intelligence to be making these kind of decisions.
Sounds wonderfull
Pay attention.
That WAS the group of white “teens” I referred to earlier.
what exactly is that?
And no rioting or charges or racism? I noticed also no riots breaking up over the lesbian couple who were allowed to adopt six black children and killed at least three. Seems rioting breaks out mostly when a thug (usually black but occasionally also white as in case of the pedophile Matthew Shepard by his lover).
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