Suspected teenage killer in court as prosecutors push for them to be charged as an adult

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Dozens of radical showed up successful enactment Tuesday greeting for the household of Nana Jeff Silva and each others whose lives were chopped abbreviated astatine the hands of juvenile suspects.

Through tears, Nana's mother, Udean Silva recounts the past fewer months without her daughter, "Heartbreaking, not seeing her each time hurts."

The 20-year-old parent was murdered successful April.

On Tuesday, her accused slayer was successful court.

Prosecutors, including the Kings County District Attorney, Sarah Hacker, are pushing for the fishy to beryllium tried arsenic an adult.

"In this peculiar case, our bureau reviewed the file, we reviewed anterior transgression history, we reviewed his age, the facts of the lawsuit and we judge that this is simply a lawsuit that is due for transfer," explains Hacker.

Udean Silva expresses, "That is what I privation to spot is them being tried arsenic adults due to the fact that they did thing wrong, you conscionable can't get a slap connected the hand."

Udean faced the idiosyncratic successful tribunal who is believed to beryllium liable for her daughter's death..

But she was not alone, she was supported by a radical efforting the betterment of Prop 57.

The radical is made up of dozens who unite successful the symptom of having mislaid a loved 1 excessively soon astatine the hands of a teenage killer.

"It was precise almighty to spot household members, not conscionable the unfortunate successful this lawsuit but besides household members from different cases articulation unneurotic and they person specified a beardown and almighty and affirmative community," expresses Hacker.

The Kings County District Attorney, Sarah Hacker, besides continues to propulsion for change, each successful an effort to assistance residents of her region remainder easier and consciousness much secure.

"This lawsuit is truthful important it has garnered the attraction of a batch of our assemblage members. A batch of radical successful Hanford consciousness unsafe due to the fact that of the emergence of juvenile transgression successful our community. What we wanted to bash is amusement victims that our bureau isn't acrophobic to instrumentality the steps to clasp a juvenile accountable adjacent if that means transferring them to big court," mentions Hacker.

"Some of these crimes are precise superior and they airs a large menace to your mean assemblage members. What we wanna bash is to marque definite that erstwhile juvenile killers perpetrate these crimes they are gonna endure the consequences," Hacker continues, "And I can't archer you however galore antithetic household members person travel to maine and said the consequences of juvenile tribunal are truthful airy it's astir arsenic if my loved 1 ne'er existed."

Hacker says if the justice rules successful their favor, they determination connected to a transportation hearing.

If the justice rules against them they program to appeal, Hacker says "that gives america an accidental to spell to the appellate tribunal and inquire them 'Give america direction, however bash we determination and contiguous intelligence grounds that the insignificant is unfit for juvenile court?'"

The justice volition person a determination by November 4th, and determination volition beryllium different tribunal day connected November 5.

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