he chose to drive drunk on a suspended license.
Dinkins was combative with police and blamed the victims’ mother, insisting they were jay-walking and he had the right-of-way, the DA told jurors.
The two victims were riding in a red plastic Radio Flyer wagon as their parents took them on an evening stroll. At about 8:15 p.m. as the family was in a crosswalk at Redondo Avenue at Tenth Street, when Dinkins in a Dodge Durango turned left onto Redondo.
The car knocked the parents down and rolled over the wagon, Cops said earlier in the trial.
Dinkins then drove half a block, with sparks flying from beneath the SUV, before he stopped briefly.
Witness Ira Cohen said he stepped into the street and threw his hands up to stop Dinkins. The braking dislodged Oscar, who tumbled out of the wagon, which was jammed in the wheel well of the SUV.
Oscar would require surgery for his injuries.
Because Kaylee was buckled into her seat in the wagon she remained trapped as Dinkins took off a few seconds later, all while the child’s mother and others screamed for him to stop.
Someone who can’t take care around children has no business being free. I hope Dinkins never sees the light of day again.
in 1998 he was convicted of a drug charge and given three years probation. Probation didn’t go very well, and soon he was serving five years in state prison for two separate violations.
In 2000, Neely Dinkins was arrested again, this time for burglary, but that charge ended up getting dropped because there wasn’t enough evidence to pin it on him.
We have so spoiled our society that *adults* are blaming the victim. In this case, the infant didn't die until the perp got back in his vehicle and drove off...which not a single sane person could blame on the infant's mother.
Disgusting.
Looks like an ironic case in which some liberal suggestion/requirement to buckle kids into toy wagons resulted in more danger to the kid who was buckled in than to the kid who was not.