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CORCORAN, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two Central Valley mothers accidental they won’t halt warring for justness aft losing their sons to abstracted acts of unit involving minors.
Stephanie Tellez and Julia Sanchez are present organizing a protest, calling for changes to however the justness strategy handles juveniles charged with superior crimes.
Tellez’s son, Anthony Calderon, was changeable and killed successful Fresno connected Thanksgiving successful 2024. Sanchez’s son, Lorenzo Sanchez, was stabbed to decease successful a abstracted incidental conscionable a fewer months earlier adjacent the Hanford Mall.
Tellez says the trauma of losing a kid is thing she doesn't privation connected anyone.
“It’s similar surreal, similar you're retired of your body," Tellez said. "Extremely heartbreaking.”
Sanchez says the arrests that followed didn’t bring her immoderate peace.
“You guys caught them. Yeah, you guys did. But that’s not bringing my lad back," Sanchez said.
Sanchez aboriginal learned that current laws would apt effect successful a condemnation of conscionable a fewer years for the insignificant suspected of sidesplitting her son, driving her to campaign for betterment done societal media.
Tellez says she was inspired to articulation Sanchez, and together, they began calling for tougher penalties and broader parameters for juveniles convicted of convulsive crimes.
“She motivated me. I'd seen her communicative connected the news, and she motivated me," Tellez said. "Now I'm present with her to motivate others.”
The brace is present readying a protestation connected July 7, astatine 1640 Kings County Dr., starting astatine 7:30 a.m., hoping to forestall different parents from going done the aforesaid pain.
“Whether it's the Prop 57 betterment oregon the SB 1391, we're trying to alteration that. We're trying to marque a quality successful the instrumentality truthful that there's a punishment for these minors," Tellez said. "It's ridiculous - there's nary justness for us.”
