Four teens apologized and read essays on the meaning of Rosh Hashanah before they were sentenced in Sullivan County Court on Friday for ransacking a Jewish bungalow colony in April and spray painting gang graffiti, a swastika and spelling out “Hitler.”
Daniel Anderson, 19; Travis Beaupierre, 16; Malik Keith, 18; and Daemion Cameron, 19; previously pleaded guilty to burglary and served their jail time. They were formally sentenced to six months in jail and 500 hours of community service. Keith and Beaupierre were sentenced as youthful offenders.
A fifth teen, Dishawn Terry, 16, will be sentenced later this month and will also have to read an essay.
Judge Frank LaBuda made them write essays as a condition of their plea agreements and he timed the sentence to fall around the date of Rosh Hashanah.
The following is the original YWN article (from April 10, 2010):
On Sunday April 18, 2010 at about 4:45 PM, Sheriff’s Deputy Blake Starner was on patrol in Swan Lake when he spotted several subjects exiting a residence on the grounds of the Kaiman Bungalow colony, which is located at 254 Mount Hope Road.
The Deputy called for back up and chased five subjects through the woods onto the grounds of the Swan Lake golf course. Additional deputies, and state troopers responded to the scene. The Sheriff’s K-9 unit tracked two of the suspects and recovered a knife used in the burglary. The other three suspects were located in the nearby woods a short time later.
Arrested were Daniel Anderson, 19, Travis Beaupierre, 16, Dishawn Terry, 16, Malik Keith, 18, and Daemion Cameron ,19, all of Swan Lake. The subjects allegedly broke into several buildings, spray painted graffitti and swastikas, and stole property. Among the charges filed by the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office were Burglary in the 2nd degree, as a Hate Crime, Criminal Mischief 3rd as a Hate Crime, Aggravated Harassment in the 1st. degree, possession of burglar tools, and resisting arrest.
All five suspects were arraigned before town of Bethel Judge Kevin Rhyne and committed to the Sullivan County Jail without bail. Sheriff Mike Schiff says the investigation into the burglary is continuing.
(YWN Sullivan County News Desk – 2010 / Times Herald Record)
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Awww . . . That is so touching.
Dishawn and Malik, at least, are not names normally given to Caucasian babies. Could it be these two miscreants are black? And if so, how can black teenagers, with Black History Month and Black Studies classes be implicated in “hate crimes”? Were they not paying attention to their own history, or were they not in school? Are Black History Month and Black Studies classes designed to instill historical lessons or Black Nationalist theologies? Sullivan County is a long way from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s pulpit in Chicago. His message travels well — the White Man must pay.