<p>"KENTON, Ohio (AP) – A judge decided two high school athletes can complete the football season this fall before they serve 60-day jail sentences for a car crash caused by a decoy deer [they] placed in a country road. Two teens were injured.</p>
<p>“I shouldn’t be doing this, but I’m going to. I see positive things about participating in football,” Judge Gary McKinley said Tuesday.</p>
<p>Dailyn Campbell, a 16-year-old quarterback for Kenton High, and 17-year-old teammate Jesse Howard will serve their time in a juvenile detention center. They were also ordered to write a 500-word essay titled “Why I Should Think Before I Act.”</p>
<p>Last November, teens stole the decoy from a man’s home, created a base to help it stand upright because it had only two legs, and then drove up and down the road, watching as drivers swerved to avoid it, prosecutor Brad Bailey said. He said Howard did not stop the prank.</p>
<p>Robert Roby Jr. crashed his car into a pole and broke his neck, collarbone, arm and leg. His passenger, Dustin Zachariah, suffered brain damage, Bailey said…"</p>
<p>they tried to cause an accident which potentially could have killed someone?
Did not but it caused injuries so severe that the quality ( including potential loss of income) of the rest of their lives would be affected?</p>
<p>Im wondering how Howards father feels about the sentence as he already was restricting his son from playing sports. *I would be mad,because its like telling your kid he is on restriction bigtime and someone comes and overrules you.
This guy is retired, why was he ruling on this?</p>
<p>Personally I think the 2 boys should be dressed up as deer, and put in the middle of the highway where the big rigs come along, and be “test decoys”</p>
<p>Pardon my French, but what arses!</p>
<p>And that judge…I say he get dressed up too! The folks in that town need to get him OFF the bench!</p>
<p>Even the deferred sentence is too mild for the litany of crimes these kids committed. They were hoping to cause accidents; they got their wish. It was not unintentional.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> Wish I could say I were surprised. </p>
<p>Several years ago, a boy on our local small-town football team raped a girl at the same high school. There was a rule in place which denied playing privileges to anyone convicted of a crime, felony or misdemeanor. The boy pled the rape charge down to some lesser misdemeanor charge. Then, the school board met in a special session to change the wording of the rule to state that <em>only</em> felony convictions would result in loss of playing privileges. The boy went on his merry way and completed the football season, while the girl had to leave the school due to continuous and excessive harrassment by the boy and his friends. </p>
<p>IMHO the two boys responsible for the accident described above would be perfect candidates for “volunteering” to assist those who’ve lives have been forever changed as a reusult of brain and orthopedic injuries. That, along with severe monetary penalties and a MUCH longer confinement. </p>
<p>How those two or their parents can even THINK of football is beyond me.</p>
<p>What sort of message does it send that they should play the football season BEFORE serving their time??? And 60 days in juvenile detention and an essay for a crime of this magnitude that results in very serious injuries to two others? They could have been killed. What would that be, a 90 day sentence to juvenile detention? Even without the football aspect, the sentence is too light. The message the sentence and the permission to play football sends these boys, let alone others in their community is a very poor one. This wasn’t exactly shoplifting or a minor prank. It resulted in real bad harm and could have resulted in death to innocent people. I’m starting to get disillusioned with the justice system when I see what the DA is like in Durham and now this.</p>
<p>You’re right…the “I shouldn’t be doing this, but I am going to…” comment by the judge…is exactly the thinking these boys did when setting up the deer decoy to cause an accident! They knew they shouldn’t have been doing it but did. The judge knows, too, he shouldn’t be handing this down but is doing so anyway…I’d love to know who oversees judges and DA’s who handle things in such an unjust way.</p>
<p>Well…I’d be with the judge, here. I don’t see this as some sort of reward - sports teams are leadership laboratories, learning opportunities, mentoring supervision systems, etc. </p>
<p>Would everyone feel the same way if the judge had said something like “they can begin their sentences after the semester ends so they do not miss any time in the classroom”?</p>
<p>In terms of learning and development, I see no distinction between 12 weeks of math classes and a season of football practice. Different activities and different avenues for education and growth, but the participants are headed in the same positive, productive direction.</p>
<p>Education is a requirement - EC’s are NOT… they are a priveledge</p>
<p>LATE guess it doesn’t matter that the boys who were injured don’t/won’t have any choice in the matter - especially if they were athletes - their school careers have been altered - for life - the perps get to go on their merry way - ooo and serve those 60 days after football season. Fair is NOT fair in this instance.</p>
<p>when you do something really bad, you get punished, regardless of the timing…there are consequences</p>
<p>so what if they miss class time and have to go to highschool longer, that is what happens when you make bad CHOICES…so these you men get to play football, go on with their lifes, while the person they hurt, well that person doesn’t have the same chance does he…he is brain damaged along with a long physical recovery, i am sure its much longer than the 60 days…if the person they hurt needs medical help, those boys should have to pay for some of it for a long time…</p>
<p>football is a privelage, and cool that they can run around and play and dance while the person they hurt can not</p>
<p>I am appalled at the boys’ parents for letting them play, and my kid would boycott that team</p>
<p>Obviouslly human life has no value to some people</p>
<p>These boys lives are barely changing, while they have damaged another’s for kicks and fun and to get their jollies</p>
<p>What a farce and travesty</p>
<p>THIS WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT!!! It was premiditated mayhem, and what would the judge have done if the person had died? If this was your good friend who was in the accident latetoschool, guess this “punishment” would be okay with you…go on boys, go play,have fun, and when you are good and ready, whatevre works best for you, you can come on in, meanwhile the person you damaged is in phyiscal theorapy for a very long time, but that don’t matter cause you had some fun, and your life changes miniscally cause you wanted to fool around</p>
<p>as for th4 essay, my D had to write an essay, 500 words as well, for having her shoe laces untied…yeah, equal consequences</p>
<p>I have known kids that were grounded for longer for lesser offences, and it was premeditated attempted murder, because what else canyou call this?</p>
<p>forcing cars of the road…its like taking a gun loaded with 3 bullets and walking down the street spinning the thing and shooting at people for fun to watch them run…</p>
<p>CGM, obviously the crime was very dangerous, but, that isn’t the original thrust of this thread. The basis for the topic is an objection to the boys being permitted to play football, a sport. There’s no objection to them being allowed to go to school, be with their families, etc. Only to their participation in a sport. </p>
<p>JeepMOM, the education requirement is a legal distinction. The fact that ECs are not legally required in no way makes them less critical to a person’s development and growth.</p>
<p>We have a similar situation here in my area. There was this kid in the school orchestra that was high as a kite on drugs and he recently drove right through someone’s dining room into the kitchen, barely missing the woman as she was preparing dinner. He is only getting a slap on the wrist and being allowed to keep participating in orch. </p>
<p>How typical! Those bohemian musicians get away with everything!</p>