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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Madera parent is sharing her communicative for the archetypal clip since her 13-year-old lad was killed astatine a quinceañera past summer.
Jacob Muñoz was stabbed to decease astatine the enactment connected July 6, 2024. His mother, Samantha Bautista, says beingness without her lone lad has been a regular struggle.
“Jacob was my lone son,” Bautista said. “He’s a airy successful my world, adjacent though he’s not here; helium inactive shines agleam successful my world. I privation to beryllium capable to shed airy connected him.”
Since his death, Bautista has joined different Central Valley parents successful protesting Proposition 57, a instrumentality they accidental enables teens to perpetrate more superior crimes.
Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno agrees. She says Prop 57 removed captious discretion prosecutors had successful trying juveniles arsenic adults and alternatively shifted decisions to judges.
“What Prop 57 did is it took discretion distant from prosecutors, to effort juveniles arsenic adults,” Moreno said. “If we privation to springiness these juvenile offenders an accidental to change, they request longer. They request to beryllium removed from their situation that they came retired of for longer than this.”
In Jacob’s case, Bautista says the teen accused of sidesplitting him volition service little than 4 years.
“He’ll beryllium retired successful astir 4 years. Who’s not to accidental he’ll bash it again?” Bautista said. “There’s decidedly not closure. He didn’t springiness maine an apology letter, nor did helium look remorseful.”
Jacob’s household remembers him arsenic smart, funny, and loving.
A nationalist solemnisation of beingness volition beryllium held successful representation of Jacob Muñoz and different children astatine Valley Children’s Hospital connected Saturday, Oct. 4, astatine 10 a.m.; the Prop 57 parents volition beryllium protesting the proposition connected Oct. 11 connected Blackstone and Nees avenues successful Fresno.
