Earlier this month, a teenage male, who admitted to stabbing a 16-year-old Black girl in Lakeside last year, was sentenced to 480 days in a youthful offender treatment program, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. His girlfriend, also involved in the incident, was found guilty of assault and a hate crime allegation, receiving a 120-day in-custody Urban Camp program sentence.
The male's identity was withheld since the case was handled in Juvenile Court, a reprieve intended to protect the youth from being stigmatized for life. A judge rejected the prosecution's request to try the boy as an adult, reported KPBS, allowing the case to remain in the juvenile system.
The incident took place on April 16, 2022, when the victim found herself confronted by the young couple amidst a group of hostile teens who hurled racial slurs at her and her family. The attack was ostensibly in response to an earlier assault that day. While the boy stabbed the victim twice in the back, his girlfriend threatened the victim's mother with a drainage grate, as per the prosecutors in the case.
