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HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- Dozens of mothers gathered extracurricular of the Kings County Superior Courthouse successful Hanford connected Monday, each of them with 1 happening successful common, they person each mislaid a loved successful crimes that progressive a juvenile.
"You tin honestly consciousness the emotion down you," Stephanie Tellez said. "There's an energy, it's a lot, it's a endurance energy, a bittersweet vigor but I deliberation we each person that commonality that we are fighting, we are not going to fto this thrust retired the mode it has been."
Grieving mothers accidental their extremity is to unit lawmakers to alteration California Proposition 57.
"I consciousness with america being unneurotic arsenic 1 dependable unneurotic for our families that we tin marque a change, we volition marque a change, we volition get justness for our families," Susan Grote said.
Proposition 57 was a ballot measurement approved by California voters successful 2016. Proponents reason it increases nationalist information done rehabilitation and saves payer wealth by reducing the situation population.
But Kings County District Attorney Sarah Hacker says Prop 57 has made it much hard for DA's to complaint juveniles who perpetrate convulsive crimes arsenic adults.
Plus, further laws, support juvenile files private.
"So the nationalist volition spot these horrible events, but they volition not cognize what the result is. and that besides needs to change. We request much transparency successful Juvenile court, due to the fact that our assemblage sees the violence, and they besides request to spot the consequence," Kings County District Attorney Sarah Hacker said.
And portion dozens showed up successful enactment of alteration extracurricular the courthouse, the parent of a young unfortunate was wrong facing the teen accused of taking her son's life.
"You effort to unrecorded with the symptom mundane and the world is that it's ne'er going to get better, it's been a rollercoaster ride, to cognize that I americium not going to get justice," Julia Sanchez said. "These mothers didn't get justice, its precise stressful, precise disappointed successful the laws and I haven't adjacent grieved the close way."
Families doing what they tin to guarantee their loved ones didn't dice successful vain.
"It makes maine consciousness similar determination is immoderate benignant of anticipation successful humanity, due to the fact that I did consciousness unsocial astatine immoderate constituent and present that others are speaking it gives maine hope," Samantha Bautista said.
Families accidental they volition proceed warring for justness and for their loved ones who were taken excessively soon.
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