15-yr-old gets up to 6 years for 7-cent robbery...
The headline makes you think that the kid stole something worth 7 cents from a store or something.
Not so. The 15 year old and his accomplice attacked a 75 year old man, knocked him to the ground, punched him and kicked him. The guy could easily have had a heart attack and died. He didn't, but his psyche might well be destroyed, now that he knows his age is no protection against young kids attacking him.
And how much did he have in his pockets after all this?
7 cents.
I'd say this kid serves to go to jail for the rest of his life, because he clearly has no humanity. But he's going to juvenile prison for 6 years.
The fact that all he got was 7 cents does not make his crime any less serious. Indeed, it makes it more serious - that he'd be willing to kill a man for 7 whole cents...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/syracuse_15-year-old_gets_two.html
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A 15-year-old Syracuse boy will spend the next two to six years in juvenile detention and the rest of his life as a felon as a result of his sentencing today for a robbery that netted him and an accomplice seven cents.
Onondaga County Judge William Walsh rejected a defense lawyer’s request to treat Anthony Stewart, of West Onondaga Street, as a youthful offender. That means his felony conviction will remain on his permanent record.
Walsh said he might have ruled differently if Stewart had pleaded guilty, as did his accomplice, Skyler Ninham, 16. Earlier this month Walsh sentenced Ninham as a youthful offender to one and one-third to four years in state prison. Stewart, who is not old enough for prison, will be sent to a juvenile detention facility.
Both Ninham and the 73-year-old robbery victim identified Stewart as a participant in the crime, Walsh said. “And yet you still denied it,” Walsh said to Stewart. “Well, that cost you.”
Anthony Stewart Sentencing
Anthony Stewart, who robbed a Syracuse man for 7 cents, was denied youthful offender status in Onondaga county Court. Dick Blume/The Post Standard
Stewart was convicted by a jury of first-degree robbery in July, two days before Ninham pleaded guilty. According to prosecutors, Stewart and Ninham ran up behind the victim Dec. 22 and knocked him to the ground. Ninham kicked the victim and Stewart punched him in the face, breaking his glasses, before the victim handed over the seven cents in his pocket, prosecutors said. The two teens had handguns, which Stewart later said were BB guns, prosecutors said.
Lawyer Laurin Haddad, who represented Stewart, said afterward that she was disappointed by the judge’s decision to deny youthful-offender treatment. In a presentencing report, a probation officer also recommended treating Stewart as a youthful offender.
“For seven cents, now you’re making someone a felon for the rest of his life,” she said.
No. For attacking an old man, knocking him to the ground, kicking him and punching him, clearly not caring whether he lived or died, he's being made a felon.
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