Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Harshest Prison
Sentences given to teenagers.
Before we get into this – I want to ask, what is the worst punishment you have ever
been given.
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10 - Serena Vela Jailed for Skipping School 11th Grade teenager, Serena loves harry potter
and Katy Perry and was sent to jail for cutting school.
The Texan teen was struggling and couldn’t face it.
Serena is from a low income home, and her mother is unemployed.
She received fines from her school for truancy, totally 2 thousand 700 dollars.
Because she couldn’t pay, she was sent to jail for ten days.
In Jail she was thoroughly searched and was locked up among adults who committed serious
crimes.
Ironically, Serena had to miss 9 days of school while she was behind bars, which resulted
her being expelled.
How incredibly sad.
What kind of system locks up a teenager for skipping school rather than find out what
is causing the problem.
This Teenager Was Arrested and Faced 20 years In Jail Posting Lyrics to a rap song on facebook
at number 9 In June 2013, 18 year old Cameron D’Ambrosio
was arrested in Massachusetts for posting a rap verse on his Facebook page.
The aspiring rapper referenced the Boston bombings of that year, distastefully writing
lyrics that went “ F a Boston Bombinb wait till you see the shit I do I’ma be famous
for rapping, and beat every murder charge that comes across me.”
Right.
The kid found fame, but not for rapping, for being thrown in jail for a facebook post.
The Teen faced 20 years for making terror threats.
8 - Genarlow Wilson 10 Years for having consensual Oral sex with another teenager.
In 2005, 17 year old Genarlow Wilson had consensual oral sex with another teenager at a New Years
Eve Party.
The teenage girl was two years younger than him at 15 years old.
Despite the girl, who’s name is protected, repeatedly telling the courts that the act
was consensual, Wilson was sentenced to 10 years in jail…which is pretty insane.
Legally, as the girl was 15, she couldn’t consent, however provisions could have been
taken into account had they had full penetrative sex, but there is no such legislature for
oral sex.
Luckily for Wilson, he was released after serving 4 years.
7 - 20 Years for a Daytona Teenager Ky’Andrea Cook’s sentencing was very dramatic
and very sad.
The 17-year-old was sentenced to spend the next two decades of her life in prison for
carjacking and battery.
The girl used a dating ap to set up a robbery, which resulted in her boyfriend shooting the
man, who was wounded but didn’t die.
Ky’andrea was told by her attorney that she wouldn’t received jail time if she pleaded
guilty to her part of the involvement the crime, which took place in 2017.
The video of the girls sentencing went viral as people watched as her and her mother broke
down.
Slightly better news for Ky’Andrea came in 2018 when a judge amended her sentence
to 11 years as the original sentence was too harsh.
The teen, and many others, still feels she was wrongfully advised by her defence team
in the first place.
6 - Blake Layman 55 years for Breaking and Entering.
Blake Layman was 16 years old and living in a small town in Indiana when he made a bad
decision that would land him in jail for 55 years.
The teenager had a clean record and had not before been in trouble with the law.
However his whole life changed one night.
Layman and a group of slightly older friends, including 21 year old Danzele Washington,
got high and decided, on a whim, to break into a home when they noticed the Grey Truck
belonging to neighbour Rodney Scott, was missing.
Assuming he was out, they broke into the house, although they were unarmed and for all intent
and purpose, harmless.
Unfortunately It turned out that Scott was not out, but sleeping upstairs and he was
awoken by the trespassing.
In Classic Merica style, Scott came downstairs with a shotgun and shot Layman and Washington,
with the older boy dying from his injures.
Indiana law protected Rodney Scott from culpability in the murder, and instead, the teenage boy
was charged with Felony Murder.
All Layman did was foolishly decide to break into a neighbours home, but as his friend
ended up being killed by the neighbour, the blame fell on Layman, who was…if we remember…also
shot.
He was sentenced to 55 years on a prison cell.
5 – Teen jailed for life for killing her child predator
Cyntoia Brown’s case is still on going and received a lot of media attention last year.
In 2004 Cyntoia was served a life sentence age 16 for murdering a man in Nashville.
Cyntoia killed a 43 year old man who paid to have sex with her.
The teenagers childhood was marked by abuse, she was raped and forced into prostitution.
Last year, Rihanna spoke up for Cyntoia, who is now 30, sharing a text image saying: Imagine
at the age of 16 being sex-trafficked by a pimp named "cut-throat."
After days of being repeatedly drugged and raped by different men you were purchased
by a 43 year old child predator who took you to his home to use you for sex.
You end up finding enough courage to fight back and shoot and kill him.
You are arrested as a result tried and convicted as an adult and sentenced to life in prison.
This is the story of Cyntoia Brown.
She will be eligible for parole when she is 69 years old.
The last I heard, with the support of major celebrities, she now is facing a parole board.
4 - Kenneth Young was given 4 life Sentences for robbery.
Kenneth Young received an insane amount of time behind bars for a series of armed robberies
he committed in the year 2000.
The then 15-year-old had been raised in a low income neighborhood by a drug addict mother.
He was told by a 24 year old crack cocaine dealer, Jaques Bethea, that his mother would
be killed if he didn’t assist him in robberies.
When captured for his involvement in a string of robberies – he was given a shocking and
unprecedented 4 life sentences…despite nobody being seriously injured or killed from his
actions.
In 2011, after he went before a judge for resentencing – instead of releasing the
young man who had already served 11 years, his sentence was changed to 30 years.
3 - Bobby Bostic – 241 years for a string of robberies.
Like many of the teenagers on this list, Bobby was born in a poor family.
Growing up in Missouri, he started smoking and drinking age 10.
Age 13, he started stealing cars.
In 1995 when he was 16, he robbed do gooders at gun point for money at Christmas time.
One of the victims was grazed by a bullet.
This is an awful crime, yes, but Bostic received an unprecedented 241 years in jail for his
crimes, that didn’t kill anyone.
You guessed it, he denied a plea deal and was met with the full fury of Judge Baker
who said: you made your choice, and you're gonna die with your choice, Because Bobby
Bostic - you will die in the Department of Corrections. 241 years for a teenager told
they will die in jail.
Harsh indeed.
Bostic has given a number of interviews about what it was like growing up in Prison.
The Judge has even said she regrets giving him the sentence, saying the amount of time
is ridiculous.
2 - Travion Blount 268 years.
Blount was handed 6 life sentences for robbery in 2006.
At the time, the 15 year old held up a Norfolk House Party with two 18 year old’s.
Nobody was harmed and no shots were fired.
The teens stole marijuana and cellphones as well as some cash.
A jury convicted the teen for 49 separate felonies, and Blount argued he wasn’t guilty
of all of them.
He was given 6 life sentences plus 118 years, totalling 268 years...which is outrageously
harsh considering that nobody was seriously hurt, let alone killed!
Blount fought his case, but his co-defendants just got 14 as they accepted plea deals.
How outrageous and unfair.
In 2014 he was given a partial pardon, with his sentence reduced to 40 years.
He still has another 29 years to go, while his co-defendents will be out soon.
That is what you get for trying to fight your innocence within a system rooted against you.
1 - Death Penalty for killing her Rapist What kind of world are we living in where
a man shoots a kid dead gets let off for self defense even when the kid wasn’t armed….and
across the world, a different teenage is sentenced to death for killing a man who repeatedly
raped her?!
It shows that the justice system in the unites states is just as broken as it is in Sudan,
a third world country.
Amnesty International were fighting for 19 year old Noura Hussein Hammad’s life after
she was handed the death sentence by a Sudanese Court.
The teenager was married against her will age 16.
She refused to consummate the marriage, so her husband got his two brothers and his cousin
over to hold her down while he raped her.
The next day he tried to rape her again, but she escaped.
As he cornered her in the kitchen, she grabbed a knife and stabbed him, fatal wounding him.
She has been in a women’s prison awaiting death since 2017.
So that was the Top 10 Harshest Prison Sentences given to teenagers.
I want to point out how many of these kids treated this way were people of colour.
Injustice seems to be skin deep when you compare the time some of these kids got to sentences
given to more privileged white teenagers.
This isn’t something I am saying to be controversial – it is a fact.
We need to do more to protect these children…the way they are treated shouldn’t be decided
by their race.
Simple.
So…what do you think…..were these sentences fair?
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