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Young teenager pleads guilty in connection to Barnard student Tessa Majors' murder
abcnews.go.com ^ | 6/3/2020 | Aaron Katersky and Christina Carrega

Posted on 06/08/2020 7:39:02 PM PDT by bitt

Tessa Majors was fatally stabbed in Morningside Park in December.

A 14-year-old boy charged in connection with the stabbing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors pleaded guilty to robbery charges Wednesday in family court.

The unnamed teenager pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery as a juvenile -- a felony. He will be sentenced by a judge on June 15 to a limited security facility for six to 18 months.

"This resolution is in the best interest of the community and for a youth who has had no prior contact with the juvenile justice system and was not the main actor in the murder," said James E. Johnson, the city's corporation counsel, a division that prosecutes juvenile offenders, in a statement.

The juvenile was 13 years old when he and two other teenagers, Rashaun Weaver and Luchiano Lewis, were accused in the fatal stabbing of Majors during a mugging gone wrong last December in Morningside Park, steps from Barnard College.

Majors, 18, was stabbed several times before she staggered up a flight of stairs and uttered, "Help me, I'm being robbed," authorities said.

The then-13-year-old did not physically stab Majors, according to authorities, but he confessed to providing the murder weapon to Weaver.

"After that, we saw Tessa Majors walking on the stairs inside the park. Rashaun went up to her and said something to her and Tessa yelled for help," the boy said in statements to police. "Rashaun used the knife that I had handed to him to stab Tessa and I saw feathers coming out of her coat. Then I saw Rashaun take a plastic bag out of her pocket."

The guilty plea was reached after a pretrial hearing determined that the teenager's lawful statements to the police could be used against him at trial.

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To: bitt

He should have been charged with being an “accessory before the fact to felony murder” and sentenced to jail until he is 21, at minimus.

New York City. Where the criminals have more rights and judicial excuses than their victims.


21 posted on 06/08/2020 10:53:28 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: bitt

Blacks murder whites at a rate 12 times the reverse.

BLM is bullsh-t.


22 posted on 06/08/2020 11:03:38 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: bitt

6 to 18 months for murder? At that rate he will be out in no time. He will have 2 more shots as a juvenile at murdering people when one considers the inconvenience of 6 to 18 months for each murder before he reaches legal majority and can start murdering as an adult.


23 posted on 06/09/2020 1:14:21 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: bitt

Was Ms Major white? Was the thugs black? If my questions are correct - did #WhiteLivesMatter protest? Or riot?


24 posted on 06/09/2020 2:54:56 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Deplorable American1776

She was a naïve young white woman going to school in NYC, who was duped with fake news (in this case, the omission of real crime figures) into believing the area was safe.

Sad story, but nothing exceptional; white prey killed by young Simbas/child soldiers.


25 posted on 06/09/2020 3:45:21 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: bitt

Race of the victim?

Race of the murderers?

Where are the protests/riots?

And why not?


26 posted on 06/09/2020 12:36:19 PM PDT by Hulka
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