Mom Threatens To Blow Up Courthouse After Daughter's Sentencing
Thursday, August 4, 2005 – updated: 10:03 am EDT August 5,
2005
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SIGN UP: Daily News Of The Strange EmailBARTOW, Fla. -- The mother of a 12-year-old car thief stormed out of a Polk County courtroom Thursday. She threatened to blow the place up out of anger over the 10-year sentence that was just handed to her daughter.
"This is a very serious, serious event," said Judge Charles B. Curry.
Curry sentenced 12-year-old Dekyra Bush to a total of 10 years in state custody for taking a joyride in a car back in June and then hitting two Polk County sheriff's cruisers before deputies fired a total of nine shots into the car to stop her.
As she was being led away by bailiffs, Dekyra's mother burst out of the courtroom. The judge had Sharon Bush brought back before him, but didn't find her in contempt. She could have spent up to six months in jail, but instead once again left the courtroom without her daughter.
The woman, who weeks ago railed against the system that exonerated deputies for firing on her kid, now had another cause to complaint about.
"I'm gonna blow this #@%$ up," Bush said. "That's how upset I am."
Also during sentencing, the judge said what the 12-year-old did was not just a delinquent act, but implied she had endangered the public.
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