Posted on 07/25/2024 4:31:19 PM PDT by texas booster
A Queens Criminal Court sentenced the parents of a teenage driver Monday for crimes their then-16-year-old allegedly committed back in May of 2023. This prosecution is believed to be the first of its kind—at least in New York—in which the parents are held responsible for the actions of their children.
On May 17, the now-17-year-old was allegedly driving at 101 mph in a 2005 BMW 3 Series on North Conduit Avenue in Queens when he lost control and crashed into a parked UPS truck. The teenage driver still had a junior license, which means he was supposed to be driving with a 21-year-old adult, or older, in the passenger seat. However, instead of an adult, 14-year-old Fortune Williams was in the car with him. Tragically, Williams didn’t survive the crash.
According to NBC4 New York, the teenage driver—whose name has been withheld due to his age—is being charged with several crimes, including manslaughter.
Since the driver is still a teenager that required the supervision of an adult, his parents—Sean Smith, 40, and Deo Ramnarine, 43—pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child. Smith is the one who bought the teen driver the BMW, and both parents were allegedly aware their son was driving the car illegally but did not stop him.
A school administrator notified the parents that their son was driving to school, and he was reportedly given a ticket in 2022 for driving without a license.
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Wow, that car is shredded. Yikes.
Looks like a hard (car) body roll to the right as he’s swerving left. Can’t believe a camera caught that incident.
I was just scrolling through this thread and had to stop if I saw it correctly...
ALL OF A SUDDEN PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE DOING?????????????
AND YET THEY ARE TOTALLY IN THE DARK ABOUT WHAT THE TEACHERS UNIONS ARE DOING TO THEIR CHILDREN??????
WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO SEE THE HYPOCRAPISY IN THAT??
But if the kid decides to be transgender, the school is the parent.
It’s hard to find the worst of them online these days...taken by responding LEO. I DLed copies at the time of the accident. Incredibly horrific.
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