Stupid Article: 15 yr old robs man, gets in trouble for ONLY 7 cents?
 

The headline is "Teen gets branded a felon for life for robbing man of seven cents"

These pieces of shit threw down and beat a 73 year old man. But only got 7 cents out of it, like that should make it ok. Well....they did only get 7 cents, no big deal. I'm not sure who I want to punch in the face more, the punks that robbed that man or the guy who put this article up. I'm sure if the man had more money on him, the kids would have robbed him for more money.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...200811947.html

A 15-year-old from Syracuse, Anthony Stewart, was sentenced to 2 to 6 years in a juvenile detention facility by Judge William Walsh of Onandaga County for a robbery in which the teenager took a mere 7 cents.

Walsh said he issued the harsh sentence because Stewart declined to plead guilty, choosing to fight the charges. A jury found him guilty of first degree robbery.

The victim had identified Stewart and a friend as the perpetrators, Walsh said, "and yet you still denied it," the Post-Standard newspaper of Syracuse reported.

"Well, that cost you," Walsh added.

The other teenager, Skyler Ninham, 16, pleaded guilty in July and was sentenced to 1 to 4 years in prison.

Stewart and Ninham carried BB guns that looked like real pistols when they knocked a 73-year old man to the ground--Stewart punching him in the face--and took all the cash he had on him, prosecutors said. That amounted to 7 cents.

Stewart's lawyer, Laurin Haddad, had pleaded with Walsh to treat her client as a youthful offender, so that a felony conviction wouldn't remain on his permanent record.

"For 7 cents, now you're making someone a felon for the rest of his life," Haddad told the Post-Standard.

Seems strange that it wasn't tried in a juvenile court, where, I think, you can get that erased.

In prison that's two or three hours of pay.

Yeah, the judge did the right thing. The amount of money they took is irrelevant.

**** that kid.

Whoever titled it that way is a piece of shit. No wonder criminals run rampant. Both the ciminals and those who made the title need to be put in PEINTA prison.

For committing a felony they're making someone a felon for the rest of his life.

fyp

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Just following the original wording of the quote.

Don't worry I'm sure they'll only treat his ass like a felon in juvy for the next 2-6 years.