L.A. District Attorney George Gascon admitted Sunday that a 2-year sentence in juvenile custody for a transgender woman accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl was likely not adequate.
Last month, 26-year-old Hannah Tubbs was sentenced to two years in a juvenile facility after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in a Palmdale restaurant bathroom back in 2014, when Tubbs was 17.In a statement Sunday, Gascon said that he became aware after Tubbs’ sentencing following “extremely troubling statements she made about her case, the resolution of it and the young girl that she harmed.
“While for most people, several years of jail time is adequate, it may not be for Ms. Tubbs,” Gascón said in his statement. “If we knew about her disregard for the harm she caused, we would have handled this case differently,” Gascon wrote. “The complex issues and facts of her particular case were unusual and I should have treated them that way. This change in policy will allow us the space to do that moving forward.”
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