(Hat tip: Ross M.)
Youth avoids jail in rock-dropping death
News from the legacy land of anti-jail liberal-created judiciary in our country and the liberals who believe all criminals should be “rehabilitated” and “reintegrated into society”, usually because they’re the “victims” of some societal ill —i.e., we’re to blame, not them:
The Crown had asked for time in jail for manslaughter. The maximum sentence for a youth on that charge is two years.
But the dead man’s family says they don’t want him to go to jail.
“He’s not a bad person,” one of Stanley’s sons said earlier at a sentencing hearing. “He’s just a stupid kid, and it would wreck him.”
Now the story:
A 19-year-old whose grad-night prank gone awry resulted in the death of an Edmonton bus driver four years ago has been spared jail time.
The teen, who was 15 at the time, dropped a boulder the size of a basketball over a pedestrian bridge, crashing through the windshield of a passing bus and killing driver Robert Stanley who was on his way home.
He was sentenced Thursday to six months deferred custody followed by six months of probation. As a result, he will be under house arrest and will have to do community service. The Stanley family will likely have some input into the kind of volunteer work he will do.
[…] Shortly after midnight, the 15-year-old grabbed wire cutters from his house, and he and one of the friends stole a large ornamental rock from the back yard of a home a block away. With the other three friends along, the pair lugged the rock to the overpass and set it on the ledge.
The 15-year-old cut at least one of three holes in the wire fence covering the top part of the overpass, then “pushed or helped push” the rock through one of the holes.
The group ran off when they heard a loud bang.
The 15-year-old told police he was the last one off the bridge, and he saw the bus pull over and stop along the side of the freeway. He thought the driver had stopped to see what hit the bus.
None of the friends knew Stanley was hurt. The rock, weighing 14 kilograms, had struck him in the chest.
Driving home late from a charter trip, Stanley managed to pull the bus over and flip on its hazard lights before he lost consciousness. By the time a police officer stopped to check on the bus two hours later, Stanley had died of massive internal injuries.
The next day, the group of friends heard news reports that a bus driver had been killed. They met a day later and made a pact to never again talk again about the incident.
They kept their secret for three years, despite several public pleas from Stanley’s family and a $40,000 reward.
It wasn’t until August 2005, when police announced they had finally solved the case, that one of the friends came forward to say they had arrested an innocent person. […]
The news article didn’t name the “offender/victim” who pulled what they at one point called a “prank”, and didn’t name the judge who made this brilliant ruling. But they did see fit to point out, inexplicably, that the school the kid attended was a “Catholic” school. Thanks for that information, liberal media.
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