Two Women Plead Guilty to Charges in Case of Vandalism at Ohio State Jewish Student Center
“Hate has no home in Columbus, and as City Attorney, I take bias-fueled crimes very seriously.”
Read to the bottom of this story. The details of the plea deal are jaw-dropping.
WBNS News reports:
2 charged in vandalism at Ohio State Jewish student center plead guilty to misdemeanor charges
Two women who were charged in the vandalism of the Ohio State Hillel Jewish Student Center last year have accepted a plea agreement.
The two women pleaded guilty to criminal trespass, a fourth-degree misdemeanor. The women were also charged with ethnic intimidation, theft and criminal mischief, but the charges were dismissed.
In November 2023, police said the two women walked into the student center and wanted to look around the building.
One of the women stood by the front door while the other woman allegedly went into a room and started taking small Israeli flags. When staff confronted the woman, she ran out the door cursing at them, “You support genocide”, and “Free Palestine” while running to a waiting car, police said. A man in the car drove them away.
According to Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein’s office, Hillel officials requested a restorative justice plan for the women involved in the incident.
As part of the plea deal, the suspects participated in hourslong listening and learning sessions with Jewish student Hilley, attended a dinner with a local rabbi and enrolled in a workshop at the Hillel student center.
“Hate has no home in Columbus, and as City Attorney, I take bias-fueled crimes very seriously. In every one of these types of cases, I instruct prosecutors to listen to victims in order to pursue the most appropriate outcome,” said Klein. “In this case, Hillel pushed for a response that balanced accountability with opportunities for restorative justice, and working with Hillel officials and defense counsel, we created a rigorous plan that met these demands. I will continue to stand with our Jewish friends and neighbors and all who have increasingly become targets for violence and hate-fueled rhetoric.”
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I saw the word “hate” but no mention of a “hate crime,” which the Dems pull out of their pocket at the drop of a hat.
Hillel needs to be more like the IDF, and demand expulsion.
I don’t see any indication in the article that the perps were students, or even part of the U community.
“The women were also charged with ethnic intimidation, theft and criminal mischief, but the charges were dismissed.” That was part of the deal.
They should have been sentenced to five community service at. Jewish nursing home. Assign them to the worst jobs.
I don’t believe you are thinking this through. You would put those women in a position to abuse vulnerable seniors, many of whom do not have the ability to report the crimes against them?!
I would have made them clean gravestones at a Jewish cemetery, particularly those of Holocaust survivors who had passed away.
“It eats the halvah and hamantaschen, or else it gets the hose again.”
Cute. Now say it in a bad mock Yiddish accent, while wearing Jew-nose glasses and a toy store derby hat from the dime store.
Seems rather weak sauce to go into a library and steal flags then when confronted start screaming and run off with the tearing up and occupying of buildings and assaulting Jews common on college campi. Love that stud who sat in the car and let the woman go in. That beta male is the typical hanger on trying to get a piece.
There needs to be visible consequences for these awful vandals. Fly them to Lebanon or Gaza for a taste of the IDF.