A librarian who was injured wanted the boy to spend time in a detention center.
COLUMBUS (AP) — A teen who drove a stolen Cadillac into a library wall has been sentenced to probation over the objections of the branch manager who was injured in the crash.
Devon Sydnor, 13, apologized Friday in Franklin County Juvenile Court.
Magistrate Mary Goodrich, following the recommendation in a presentencing investigation, put Sydnor on probation until October 2008. She also ordered him to perform 120 hours of community service.
"I'm not happy," said Shirley Freeman, the librarian who suffered a broken arm and fractured ribs in the Feb. 6 crash. "But they follow the law. They follow the system."
Freeman said she would have preferred to see Sydnor spend some time in a detention center.
Sydnor was 12 at the time of the crash. He was in the car with two older boys who pleaded guilty to stealing it. Authorities said the boys crashed the car into the library after they had been kicked out of the building for causing a disturbance.
Intentional?
"I cannot prove that driving the car through the library was intentional," Freeman told the court, "but I can say Devon's decisions to first get into a stolen vehicle, then drive it, even though he had no license nor skill at driving, were intentional."
Freeman remains on unpaid leave.
Sydnor was convicted in July of vehicular assault and failure to stop after a nonpublic road accident, both felonies.
Christopher Clark, 16, was sentenced to a year of probation in May after pleading guilty to a delinquency count of grand theft, along with two counts of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle involving two other stolen cars.
Deon Roberts, 15, pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and car theft. He also pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition for an unrelated case and was sentenced to at least a year in juvenile detention for all three convictions.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
A librarian who was injured wanted the boy to spend time in a detention center.
COLUMBUS (AP) — A teen who drove a stolen Cadillac into a library wall has been sentenced to probation over the objections of the branch manager who was injured in the crash.
Devon Sydnor, 13, apologized Friday in Franklin County Juvenile Court.
Magistrate Mary Goodrich, following the recommendation in a presentencing investigation, put Sydnor on probation until October 2008. She also ordered him to perform 120 hours of community service.
"I'm not happy," said Shirley Freeman, the librarian who suffered a broken arm and fractured ribs in the Feb. 6 crash. "But they follow the law. They follow the system."
Freeman said she would have preferred to see Sydnor spend some time in a detention center.
Sydnor was 12 at the time of the crash. He was in the car with two older boys who pleaded guilty to stealing it. Authorities said the boys crashed the car into the library after they had been kicked out of the building for causing a disturbance.
Intentional?
"I cannot prove that driving the car through the library was intentional," Freeman told the court, "but I can say Devon's decisions to first get into a stolen vehicle, then drive it, even though he had no license nor skill at driving, were intentional."
Freeman remains on unpaid leave.
Sydnor was convicted in July of vehicular assault and failure to stop after a nonpublic road accident, both felonies.
Christopher Clark, 16, was sentenced to a year of probation in May after pleading guilty to a delinquency count of grand theft, along with two counts of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle involving two other stolen cars.
Deon Roberts, 15, pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and car theft. He also pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition for an unrelated case and was sentenced to at least a year in juvenile detention for all three convictions.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
A teen who drove a stolen Cadillac into a library wall has been sentenced to probation over the objections of the branch...
