Woman Who Drove SUV Into 2 Children Due to Their Race Given 25 Years By Federal Judge

Woman Who Drove SUV Into 2 Children Due to Their Race Given 25 Years By Federal Judge: A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a federal judge on hate crimes charges, the Associated Press reported. Nicole Poole Franklin had already been sentenced to up to 25 years, including a mandatory minimum of 17 1/2, on state attempted murder charges. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Rose sentenced Poole Franklin to 304 months in prison, or 25 years and four months, during the separate federal trial. Prosecutors said Poole Franklin targeted a 12-year-old Black boy and a 14-year-old Latina girl on December 9, 2019, in Des Moines due to their race. Poole Franklin pleaded guilty to two federal hate crime charges in May.