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CHICAGO – A 19-year old woman who live-streamed video of the beating of a mentally disabled teen was sentenced to four years of probation.
Brittany Covington has been in custody since her arrest last January. Her live stream video showed a mentally disabled teenager getting beaten and yelled at.
She pleaded guilty to the crime, which the judge called “horrific.”
She will also have to do 200 hours of community service.
The judge warned if she violates probation, she will face prison time.
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Brittany Covington, 18, of Chicago, is charged with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and residential burglary.
Despite the guilty plea, Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks released Covington without jail time. Telling Covington, “Do not mess this up,” Judge Hooks imposed 200 hours of community service and banned Covington from using social media and having contact with her co-defendants for four years.
The judge did not assign jail time because, he said, “I’m not sure if I did that you’d be coming out any better.”
Hooks insisted that his sentence would give Covington the chance to put her life on a productive path.
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
Since I searched and didn't find any threads dealing with this i am posting it here.
CHICAGO – A 19-year old woman who live-streamed video of the beating of a mentally disabled teen was sentenced to four years of probation.
Brittany Covington has been in custody since her arrest last January. Her live stream video showed a mentally disabled teenager getting beaten and yelled at.
She pleaded guilty to the crime, which the judge called “horrific.”
She will also have to do 200 hours of community service.
The judge warned if she violates probation, she will face prison time.
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If it had been 4 white people who kidnapped, tortured, video taped and posted their actions on youtube, every single one of those white violent thugs would have received time in prison, and I would have agreed with it.
I really don't care what race people are, when people commit this sort of "horrific" acts they deserve a long time in prison. But the liberal judge from Chicago thought that Brittany Covington should only receive 4 years probation...
Is this the type of justice that the political correct society in these days want?...
originally posted by: wickd_waze
a reply to: 3daysgone
If that was your son or brother kidnapped, you would be singing a very different tune.
I see you’re playing devil’s advocate here, but real justice would be an eye for an eye.
You simply cannot rationalize away the consequences of this persons actions because of an ineffective prison industrial complex, which is an entirely different issue that should not and did not have any affect on this person’s decision to torture another human being for the sake of racial/political retaliation.
Get real.
I don’t know why prosecutors would even need to offer a plea deal to someone in such an open and shut case... More disturbing, I don’t know why they would want to offer a plea deal.
This definitely isn’t justice.
People get away with a lot of things and it can be said of all ethnicity. Now think about this. Is it really better for this young person, to go prison and learn how to be an adult there? Will that really help her be the person that she should be? I agree that man deserves justice. I am just trying to look at this from every angle I can think of. I really am glad, I am not the Judge, because I am not sure what the real justice would be. Maybe the victim should have say in the matter, but that may not be justice, that would seem more like revenge, which perverts justice.
It's possible that this young lady was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She may have some redeeming qualities that the judge is taking into consideration that we're not aware of.
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
a reply to: 3daysgone
I absolutely understand where you are coming from in your posts above...
I actually have some pretty radical beliefs about the justice system, and subsequently the prison system...
There are not many crimes I believe deserve a prison sentence...
& even then I go on a case by case basis, believing fully in leniency even in some homicide cases...
Idealistically, prison is ideal for criminals and gradual rehabilitation...
But the reality is that it not only puts people in severe danger, but acts more like a crime school, with criminals more likely to become even more antithetical to the society they’re eventually released back into.
However, I definitely feel that this woman is irredeemable and of no use to society...
She is one of the types I have no problem leaving in a cell for life, or even with a bullet in the head.
I am trying to find out what the plea deal was.
You’d expect it to be something substantial considering the very serious charges against her, which were a guaranteed conviction given the undeniable proof available.