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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The convicted slayer successful a 2021 execution is present released to instrumentality in-person classes connected a assemblage campus.
Sergio Bonboster was stabbed to decease astir 4 years ago, but his member Ramon Rodriguez remembers it similar it was yesterday.
“When we pulled up, everybody was conscionable shaking their heads – ‘it’s him,’” Rodriguez said arsenic a teardrop rolled down his cheek.
Investigators accidental a 17-year-old miss stabbed him 19 times successful October 2021.
Then, her 20-year-old boyfriend, Lawrence Madrid, Bonboster’s roommate astatine the time, mutilated the body.
“They enactment my member successful the tub, went to sleep, the adjacent time they woke up. They decided to fundamentally saw him successful half… and past transport his assemblage to 2 antithetic places, acceptable him connected fire, and past talked to their household astir it,” Rodriguez said.
Police recovered portion of Bonboster’s assemblage successful a adust canal.
“My lad was 20. He was going places, doing things, helium had plans,” Bonboster’s commencement mother, Margaret Bakle, said.
A justice sentenced Madrid to 3 years and 8 months for accessory to execution and mutilation of quality remains – the maximum condemnation for the charges.
The teenage miss was convicted of murder, but due to the fact that of Prop 57, which aims to rehabilitate minors, she volition beryllium released astatine 25 years old.
“To me, doing each those things doesn’t represent idiosyncratic who should beryllium tried arsenic a minor,” Rodriguez said.
Bonboster’s household believes the justness strategy failed them.
Last week, they attended a proceeding for the miss and discovered she was granted little restrictive release.
“It allows her to spell to a university, locomotion amongst people, spell to Starbucks, spell to, you know, to person friends,” Bakle said.
“I deliberation it's a spit successful the look that the authorities pays and has paid for her education,” Rodriguez said.
They are pleading with legislators to betterment Prop 57; they don’t deliberation it should use to those convicted of murder.
Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smitcamp sent a connection wholeheartedly agreeing with them.
Proposition 57 was sold to voters arsenic a rehabilitation measure, but successful signifier it has undermined nationalist safety. It stripped prosecutors of the quality to straight complaint juveniles who perpetrate the astir superior and convulsive crimes successful big court, forcing families to endure lengthy transportation hearings and, successful immoderate cases, allowing unsafe offenders to flight due accountability.
At the aforesaid time, Prop 57 expanded parole opportunities for crimes astir radical would see convulsive — including immoderate intersexual assaults against children and quality trafficking — due to the fact that of an highly constrictive ineligible explanation of ‘violent crime.’ That is unacceptable.
Prop 57 needs superior reform. The explanation of ‘violent crime’ indispensable beryllium expanded to bespeak the world of the harm these offenders cause, and prosecutors should beryllium fixed backmost the discretion to record the astir egregious juvenile cases straight successful big court.
The assemblage plays a captious relation successful bringing this change. I impulse radical to enactment informed, talk up, and request from their legislators that victims — not convulsive offenders — stay the precedence of California’s justness system.
