Ohio woman's sentence includes Christmases in jail
COLUMBUS,
Ohio (AP) — A central Ohio judge has ordered a woman to spend the next
five Christmases in jail as part of her sentence for issuing state ID
cards and driver's licenses to immigrants
who entered the country illegally.
Prosecutors
say 44-year-old Betina Young — a former license agency employee —
accepted payments from applicants to falsify records showing they had
verified their immigration status.
She has pleaded guilty.
The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/17AzoIw
) that Judge Michael Holbrook put Young on probation Monday for five
years — ordering that she spend a minimum of three days in jail
each Christmas while on probation.
If she violates probation, she could go to prison for 15 years.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch,
http://www.dispatch.com
(nothing
like teaching the good Christian value of mercy than making someone sit
in a jail cell during Christmas. So she cut some immigrants a break and
fudged some numbers, should she
go to jail for that at all? Wouldn’t a fine or public service more get
the point across?)
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