KENTON, Ohio - A judge decided two high school athletes can complete the football season this fall before they serve 60-day jail sentences for a car crash caused by a decoy deer placed in a country road. Two teens were injured.
"I shouldn't be doing this, but I'm going to. I see positive things about participating in football,"? Judge Gary McKinley said Tuesday.
Dailyn Campbell, a 16-year-old quarterback for Kenton High, and 17-year-old teammate Jesse Howard will serve their time in a juvenile detention center. They were also ordered to write a 500-word essay titled "Why I Should Think Before I Act."?
Last November, teens stole the decoy from a man's home, created a base to help it stand upright because it had only two legs, and then drove up and down the road, watching as drivers swerved to avoid it, prosecutor Brad Bailey said. He said Howard did not stop the prank.
Robert Roby Jr. crashed his car into a pole and broke his neck, collarbone, arm and leg. His passenger, Dustin Zachariah, suffered brain damage, Bailey said.
Campbell and Howard pleaded no contest to vehicular vandalism and other charges. Three other teenagers are awaiting trial in the fall.
"None of these guys will ever know what our sons have gone through,"? Roby's mother, Mary, wrote to the court. "If they get nothing for what they've done, they'll do something worse later. They need more than a slap on the wrist."?
Both Campbell and Howard apologized at their sentencing.
"I think every day that I hurt someone, and that hurts me inside,"? Howard said.
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
That guy should lose his job..
I don't care who you are or where you're from, but if you put something like that in the road to purposely try and put someone else's safety at risk, you deserve to be put in jail IMMEDIATELY.
... yet now they are not in jail, and even get to PLAY THE ENTIRE FOOTBALL SEASON? They could have easily killed someone by what they did..
They already ruined two people's lives!
Judge who? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]
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You know what Ms. Gump always said, "Stupid is as stupid does". That could probably apply to the kids AND the judge! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wall.gif[/img]
"Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on."
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You know what Ms. Gump always said, "Stupid is as stupid does". That could probably apply to the kids AND the judge! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wall.gif[/img]
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AMEN
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HOW'S THAT HOPE AND CHANGE WORKING OUT FOR YA ??????
I wonder if this judge has any ties to these boys, or is it a case of money talks.......and let the boys walk. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/arcadefreak.gif[/img]
"We gots us a game to win boys"
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