A reduced sentence for an American teenager who ran over a mother and her baby provokes a wave of anger (video)
A lenient sentence by an American court on a teenager who was imprisoned for between 5 and 7 months in a juvenile monitoring prison, who committed several crimes, has sparked great outrage in the country. Previously, he was placed under surveillance.
And the video clip, which caused a sensation, showed how the mother repeatedly tried to avoid the car, but the accused insisted on doing so and fled.
The teenager was also convicted of poisoning a girl after he mixed a drink for her in 2019 in a high school, which caused her to be hospitalized, and another charge was found in his record in which he was convicted of assault by force that would have resulted in serious bodily injury.
Despite this, the court sentenced him to detention in a juvenile prison for a few months. According to Al Arabiya Net.
The plaintiff considered it less than a military school detention, and a little more difficult than a summer camp, as they put it, and Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon refused to charge the teenager with assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder, according to "Fox News."
Gascon also announced in a statement that the county police department agreed to the charges and sentencing, but later withdrew.
He considered that, fortunately, the infant who was with his mother was not harmed after the run-over operation, while the mother suffered a tear in her elbow.
He described the ruling as an "appropriate decision", considering that juvenile justice aims to "rehabilitate young people", and thus the teenager will be held accountable for his actions and receive the necessary services to prevent him from committing future crimes. As for the victim's mother, she stressed that what happened to her is a nightmare that will haunt her forever.
She condemned the verdict and was surprised by the opinion of the public prosecutor, mocking him for ignoring the seriousness of what happened to her, as she put it, and revealed in a statement, that she believed at the moment of the crime that she was living with her son in the last moments, in reference to the severity of what she went through.
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