Four Toledo, Ohio, teenagers accused of killing a man when they dropped a sandbag from a highway overpass have been ordered to a youth treatment facility, a court official said. "The youth treatment center is a lockdown facility in Toledo. The program runs six months, but there is no set time to release. The average youth spends eight months there," Lori Olender, juvenile division deputy chief for the Lucas County Prosecutor's Office, said in an email. Besides being ordered to the youth treatment facility, the teenagers were given four-year suspended sentences, placed on probation and ordered to perform 30 hours of community service, Olender said.
One was charged with murder and felonious assault and three were charged with involuntary manslaughter and vehicular vandalism, she said...
Lillian Diallo, an attorney for the Byrd family, told CNN Saturday that she found the sentence to be "extremely light." "It was light on steroids," Diallo said, adding that "the sentence was a heck of a message to send." "You can't tell me at 13 you didn't know it was wrong to throw things on the freeway," Diallo said.
