Entries by Trench Reynolds

Student behind school threat sent to jail for summer:

19-year-old Matthew D. Hayes, formerly of Crystal Lake High School in Illinois, had written a threat last year in the school's bathroom referring to Virginia Tech in order to get a day off from school.

Not only did the school not go into lockdown but Hayes was sentenced to 90 days in county lockup.

He entered a guilty plea to attempted disorderly conduct in order to get two felony charges against him dismissed. He'll also spend two years on probation.

I think 90 days in county should straighten his ass out.

Heather Trujillo avoids prison in "Mortal Kombat" death of half-sister:

I know I've been jumping around from site to site with this story so I apologize.

Anyway for those of you who haven't been following this story 16-year-old Heather Trujillo and her boyfriend, 17-year-old Lamar Roberts, were accused of killing Trujillo's half sister Zoe Garcia.

The pair were babysitting Zoe when they allegedly beat and kicked Garcia until she died supposedly imitating the game Mortal Kombat. My contention is that the game didn't make them do it and that they were just violent creatures bent on destruction. If it wasn't MK that they were imitating it could have been a movie or a TV show. I don't think the medium would have mattered.

Anyway Heather Trujillo escaped jail time at sentencing yesterday. She was sentenced to an18-year-suspended sentence which means if she violates the terms of her plea she'll be sent to state prison for the remainder of the 18 years.

No trial date has been set for Roberts yet.

I'll try to get all the old posts about this on this site.

Charges filed in 3 sexual assaults:
Here's another kid that's being charged as an adult that I doubt you'll see any advocacy group come to his defense.

15-year-old Kendrick Crockett of Jackson, MS has been charged as an adult in multiple rapes and robberies.

Crockett along with two other suspects are accused in the separate rapes and robberies of two women in their early 20's.

Crockett's mother refused to give a statement but his grandmother had this to say.

"He's a good child. They lied on him because he didn't rape nobody," she said.

Denial can be so pathetic sometimes.

No word on Crockett's proposed sentence yet but I would be very surprised if prosecutors didn't seek life.

I get the feeling that the advocacy groups who think teens shouldn't be tried as adults will just conveniently ignore this case.

2 Children Reach Plea Deals In Plot To Harm Teacher:

Remember the third graders from Georgia who allegedly plotted to attack their teacher a few months ago? Of course you do. They were the ones from Center Elementary School in Waycross who each had their own individual tasks in the plot. You should remember it, everyone went apeshit over it in one way or another when it happened.

Anyway two of the three alleged ringleaders accepted plea deals. Details of the plea were undisclosed.

However the third suspect's parents refuse to take a plea deal. They say their child is innocent and what to make sure the child has a clean record. And to make sure their precious snowflake has clean record they brought in 'family representative' and NAACP representative Rev. Thomas Bailey.

"I'm definitely not happy with what's going on. I'm not happy with the entire process from start to finish and how this whole thing occurred and how it started in the school system and quickly it got to the law enforcement," said Bailey.

If I didn't know any better I'd say it sounds like someone is trying to play the race card.

Columbine-Style Attack Plotter Sent To Prison:
The suspect in the plot to attack Newington High School in Connecticut was sentenced yesterday. Frank Fechteler was given a sentence of 12 years behind bars that will be suspended after 3 and 5 years probation.

The article goes into detail about how Fechteler and his attorney talk about how it was "the old Frank" that was capable of crimes like this but "the new Frank" is much different. On the stand Fechteler even said he'll never commit another crime again.

That kind of reminds me about the movie Strangeland when Dee Snider's character claims that he's been rehabilitated only to kill again.

New Frank and old Frank are the same Frank in my opinion.

Teen admits to school attack scare:
One of the suspects accused in the plot to attack Belvidere High School in New Jersey. 17-year-old Joseph Pastusek II pleaded guilty to charges of false public alarm and failure to adjust.

Failure to adjust is a crime? If that's the case I know at least one commenter here that should have been arrested a long time ago.

Jokes aside Pastusek was given 3 years probation and 3 months in a residential facility that the judge won't call juvenile detention or medical facility. So what, are they putting him up in his own condo?

So no jail time or psychiatric treatment. That's just wonderful. Another slap on the wrists. A killer isn't scared about violating probation if his mind is made up.

Student Faces Jail Time In Online Threat:
Thomas Musetti was a former student of Upper Merion HigH School near Philadelphia. Last year he was arrested for making internet threats against the school then showing up on school properties.

Musetti had felony charges of terroristic threats against him and one misdemeanor. The felony charges were dropped because investigators could find no evidence that he planned to carry out his threat.

The article gives the impression that he is still facing jail time but it doesn't go into specifics.

Mesa teen sentenced for plan to hold his classroom hostage:
15-year-old Brent Clark was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison with 9 months served for plotting to hold his class at Powell Junior High hostage and holding a girl at knifepoint.

On March 23, 2007, the Powell Junior High School student packed his backpack with a gun, 3 knives, and latex gloves with the apparent intent to hold his classroom hostage and be killed by police, referred to as "suicide by cop."

Clark was originally charged with terrorism which could have kept him in prison for 40 years. The plea dropped that charge. Clark's mother feels they were blackmailed into the plea.

"We were being blackmailed," said Donette Reid, Clark's mom. "That terrorism charge was blackmail."

His mom fears that his childhood is gone and his experience in prison will take his adulthood too.

"My heart is broken." she said through tears. "They just took my heart."

I think his childhood was gone the moment he held that girl at knifepoint. I'm sure we'll be hearing from Ms. Reid shortly.

Teen Sentenced After Classmate's Death:
It's now official that 16-year-old Dustin Howard will spend no time in jail for the death of Dakota DeRemus. A judge approved the plea deal that would only give Howard 18 months of probation with the possibility of ending probation after 12 months.

Meanwhile Dakota DeRemus is still serving out his death sentence that he didn't have the luxury of a trial for.

Teen in Connetquot school plot avoids jail:
17-year-old Michael McDonough, he of the Fry Cook Plot against Connetquot High School in Long Island, has pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree reckless endangerment and fourth-degree conspiracy.

Under the plea McDonough avoids jail time but must remain on probation for 5 years. If he violates his probation the judge has threatened to send him to an upstate New York prison, you know, like Attica or Sing Sing.

McDonough apologized in court and prosecutors seem to be happy with his progress since his arrest.

2 teens charged in killings of Minn. mother, son:
17-year-old Stafon Edwards Thompson and 16-year-old Brian Lee Flowers of Minneapolis have been charged as adults for the crime they committed. They've both been charged in the murder of 36-year-old Katricia Daniels and her 10-year-old son. Daniels was stabbed over 100 times, her son had a TV smashed over his head. The pair claim robbery was the motive but the only thing stolen was a cell phone. Blood covered the walls and floors of the apartment.

So my question, which I'm sure you can guess by now, is where is the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the fact that these youths are being charged as adults?

Scott Dyleski killed Pam Vitale in an equally brutal fashion and people climbed the walls and shouted from the rooftops that he shouldn't have been charged as an adult.

Could it be that the Kid Criminal Crowd are (gasp) racists? Think about it. Just taking the cases from this site we have Scott Dyleski, Eric Schorling, Kenny Bartley, Thomas White, and John Jason McLaughlin. All teens charged as adults and all white boys. Do only spoiled suburban white kids deserve your attention? Do you think that only white kids should be charged as juveniles? Is there not enough room in your bleeding hearts for black teens? Or do you finally admit that for some teens there are no second chances?

Gardner teen pleads no contest in death of classmate:
Dustin Howard pleaded no contest in the death of Dakota Deremus. As you'll recall Dakota collapsed and died from a congenital heart defect after getting into a fight with Dustin Howard. Dakota's father claims that Howard was bullying Dakota.

Howard pleaded no contest to charges of aggravated battery. Under the plea Howard will have no jail time and will receive 12-15 months of intensive probation. The judge does have the option of rejecting the plea deal.

Dakota has no option other than the death sentence he received.

Mental exam ordered for school-gun teen:
A judge has ordered Thomas White to undergo a mental examination to see if he is competent enough to assist in his own defense.

If you'll recall White is accused of discharging an assault rifle in Memorial Middle School in Joplin, MO. He is also accused of trying to shoot the principal but the gun jammed.

His defense is now claiming that White has schizophrenia. If it didn't work for John Jason McLaughlin I seriously doubt it will work for White.

The judge did turn down a request for White to be released into the recognizance of his parents. You know, where his ex-drug dealer dad had the gun just laying around. That was probably a good idea.

State: Latest DNA doesn’t clear Echols:
The Arkansas state Attorney General's office is saying that the DNA of Terry Hobbs does not clear the West Memphis 3 of the murders they've been convicted of. Something that I said almost a year ago. Or should I say it doesn't clear Damien Echols because let's be honest, that's who this is really about. But that's a rant that I've gone on before.

“Those unremarkable results do not (and cannot ) demonstrate his actual innocence,” state the court documents, filed May 30 in Craighead County Circuit Court by Assistant Attorney General Kent Holt and Craighead County prosecutors.

The article then goes on to recant the WM3's defense team's ludicrous fish theory. You know the one. It said that aquatic life caused the post-mortem trauma and genital mutilation of the eight-year-old victims. But yet they refuse to accept the theory of how the water could have possibly washed away the rest of the DNA that more than likely belonged to their victims.

That's what happens when you become a zealot. You lose all sense of perspective.

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