A New York high school cheer rivalry resulted in a tragic end with one girl losing her life, another girl spending the rest of her teen years institutionalized, and a family unhappy with the “justice” they were served.
On Tuesday, Jan. 24, a 15-year-old Mount Vernon student accepted her sentencing of 3 to 9 years of lockdown in a state juvenile detention center from Westchester County Judge Susan Cacace. The sentence was not unexpected, the Rockland/Westchester Journal News reports.
In December, when the suspect pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of rival cheerleader Kayla Green, the judge promised her she would receive a sentence in this range.
On April 8, Green and a friend attended a parade at Mount Vernon City Hall to celebrate their school’s basketball team’s undefeated season.
After the ceremony, at approximately 3:55 p.m. and two blocks away, Green and her friend Mainece Simpson were in a vehicle on East Prospect…
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