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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Families crossed the Central Valley who person mislaid children to convulsive crimes proceed to propulsion for changes to Proposition 57, now, 1 begetter from the radical is adding his dependable to the movement.
Stephen Quick’s son, Caleb, was changeable and killed successful a McDonald’s parking batch successful Clovis. Quick says helium ne'er expected to find himself rallying for transgression justness reform.
“This shouldn’t beryllium a movement,” Quick said. “This shouldn’t person to beryllium a happening we person to bash to combat for our kids.”
Prop 57, passed by voters successful 2016, changed however juveniles are prosecuted. Families against Prop 57 accidental it makes it harder to clasp teens accountable for convulsive crimes.
“If you’re 15 and younger, you are perfectly ne'er going to beryllium tried arsenic an adult," Quick said. "Doesn’t substance what you did. If you’re 16 and 17, determination is simply a possibility, and that’s wherefore you spell done that two-to-three-year process of a transportation hearing.”
Quick says helium and his lad were close. The 2 worked retired together, went to religion together, and shared a adjacent bond. Quick inactive treasures 1 duty wherever Caleb wrote that his dada would beryllium the idiosyncratic to assistance him backmost connected track. “That helium felt that mode astir me, it was heartwarming to retrieve him that way.”
Through their grief, Quick and different parents accidental they’ve built an "extended family" by leaning connected each other.
“We person our ain stories, but unneurotic our stories are greater," Quick said. "We consciousness we tin supply an interaction to a alteration to Prop 57.”
The families are present readying their largest protestation yet successful Fresno connected Oct. 11, hoping the objection volition bring much attraction to their origin and support the representation of their children alive.
