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This is a plea from a VERY good friend of mine. We went to HEART in one class and have kept in touch through the years. I was going to post this on here before but because of the nature of the forum, I will say I real protective of my friend because I know her heart and how she has contribute to different causes in the past from St.Mary's high, Marymount, her district in Oraccabessa, and we both worked on Donation for the St. Ann's Infirmary while we were there plus a few causes here in the states.
Now here is her plight.
My son got sentenced to 60 years for a home invasion robbery where no one got killed. Yes it was a stupid thing for him and his friends to do but as a first time offender the judge looked at him and gave him 60 years in the Department of Corrections. One of the other kid got 30 years after pleading guilty on the mercy of the court and the other kid got 45 years. Now this crime was committed when these males were all teenagers and they were held in the jail for two and a half years before they were tried. I need my son back, yes he has to serve time for the crime he committed but 60 years is excessive, way excessive.
Two and a half years ago he was
charged and last week he was sentenced to 60 years.
Rosemarie Boothe who has been an advocate in helping people who are in need, mostly children over the years, she now needs our help in getting her son back. Please read her story below:
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HELP ME GET MY SON BACK
BY: ROSEMARIE BOOTHE
It has been two years, five months today since my son got himself into trouble with the law. I went ahead and got an attorney to represent him by defending him I guess just as any mother would do. I know he had to pay for what he had done, the crime he had committed and my heart was set on that.
Now when you as a parent raise your child or children to the best of your ability and give them all the necessary things and instructions you are hoping that they will follow through with your teachings and not get caught up in the wrong crowd but instead be a role model and be exemplary and make you the parent or parents proud but it does not always go the way we wish. My son, my firstborn decided to along with three other individuals, commit a home invasion. Three of the four were caught including my son, oh did I forget to mention that they were all black males under the age of 18. The young men were held in the jail system for approximately two years before they were tried. The younger of the three was sixteen years when the offence was committed, this kid had a rap sheet already anyway he pled guilty on the mercy of the court and the judge looked at him and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. My son who had no priors went to trial and was sentenced to 60 years in prison. The other young man's fate is still up in the air as he goes for his sentencing hearing on October 25,2011 and he also has a rap sheet.
Now I personally think the judge has been severely harsh on these young men and I need to do something.
I need to get my son back and I am asking for your help as a community. I know he is my responsibility and yes I know he did wrong but ask yourselves this question, if you were in my shoe what would you do? Is it fair for a judge to pass a life sentence, yes that is exactly what it is on my son and no one was hurt, yes there was a gun involved but at the trial it came out that the gun was nonfunctional and the dna done on the gun came back to the kid that pled guilty on the mercy of the court. I know he was wrong, dead wrong to try something like that and I have no idea what he was thinking as I did not raise him that way.
I am begging for your help in any way possible, advice as what to do anything right about now. This is my first time dealing with the justice system here and I have never dealt with it before anywhere else so I am at a loss. I am planning to appeal but I know this process is costly and I do not have the funds so I am appealing to each and everyone. If I can get my son back I may be able to overturn a lot of sentences that has been passed on our people that was not right.
AGAIN I AM APPEALING TO YOU ...PLEASE HELP ME GET MY SON BACK.
THANKS.
ROSEMARIE.
Now here is her plight.
My son got sentenced to 60 years for a home invasion robbery where no one got killed. Yes it was a stupid thing for him and his friends to do but as a first time offender the judge looked at him and gave him 60 years in the Department of Corrections. One of the other kid got 30 years after pleading guilty on the mercy of the court and the other kid got 45 years. Now this crime was committed when these males were all teenagers and they were held in the jail for two and a half years before they were tried. I need my son back, yes he has to serve time for the crime he committed but 60 years is excessive, way excessive.
Two and a half years ago he was
charged and last week he was sentenced to 60 years.
Rosemarie Boothe who has been an advocate in helping people who are in need, mostly children over the years, she now needs our help in getting her son back. Please read her story below:
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HELP ME GET MY SON BACK
BY: ROSEMARIE BOOTHE
It has been two years, five months today since my son got himself into trouble with the law. I went ahead and got an attorney to represent him by defending him I guess just as any mother would do. I know he had to pay for what he had done, the crime he had committed and my heart was set on that.
Now when you as a parent raise your child or children to the best of your ability and give them all the necessary things and instructions you are hoping that they will follow through with your teachings and not get caught up in the wrong crowd but instead be a role model and be exemplary and make you the parent or parents proud but it does not always go the way we wish. My son, my firstborn decided to along with three other individuals, commit a home invasion. Three of the four were caught including my son, oh did I forget to mention that they were all black males under the age of 18. The young men were held in the jail system for approximately two years before they were tried. The younger of the three was sixteen years when the offence was committed, this kid had a rap sheet already anyway he pled guilty on the mercy of the court and the judge looked at him and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. My son who had no priors went to trial and was sentenced to 60 years in prison. The other young man's fate is still up in the air as he goes for his sentencing hearing on October 25,2011 and he also has a rap sheet.
Now I personally think the judge has been severely harsh on these young men and I need to do something.
I need to get my son back and I am asking for your help as a community. I know he is my responsibility and yes I know he did wrong but ask yourselves this question, if you were in my shoe what would you do? Is it fair for a judge to pass a life sentence, yes that is exactly what it is on my son and no one was hurt, yes there was a gun involved but at the trial it came out that the gun was nonfunctional and the dna done on the gun came back to the kid that pled guilty on the mercy of the court. I know he was wrong, dead wrong to try something like that and I have no idea what he was thinking as I did not raise him that way.
I am begging for your help in any way possible, advice as what to do anything right about now. This is my first time dealing with the justice system here and I have never dealt with it before anywhere else so I am at a loss. I am planning to appeal but I know this process is costly and I do not have the funds so I am appealing to each and everyone. If I can get my son back I may be able to overturn a lot of sentences that has been passed on our people that was not right.
AGAIN I AM APPEALING TO YOU ...PLEASE HELP ME GET MY SON BACK.
THANKS.
ROSEMARIE.
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