Waldo Mejia should never have been left on the – Latest News
In information that can (tragically) shock no one, monstrous killer Waldo Mejia will escape for the second a prison trial over his vicious, random homicide of Bronx 14-year-old Caleb Rijos.
A Bronx choose discovered him too loopy to stand trial.
Yet one way or the other different judges, and the justice system, never discovered him too loopy to be roaming the streets at will earlier than the homicide.
This is a man who allegedly stabbed a straphanger in a subway station mere toes from the place he would finally kill Rijos, a week earlier than that tragedy occurred.
And Mejia had long terrorized neighbors, kicking in doorways and stabbing a Ring digital camera.
Caleb Rijos, 14, was stabbed twice in the chest behind a building on East 138th Street close to Lincoln Avenue in January. Family photograph obtained by NYP
That incident proved to any rational particular person past any doubt that Mejia should be involuntarily dedicated earlier than he did one thing worse.
Instead, he was launched on his own recognizance as a result of the offense was non bail-eligible below our monstrous criminal-justice “reforms.”
And even that doesn’t exhaust Mejia’s prison historical past.
In 2019 he set his girlfriend’s condominium foyer on fire — and again obtained let go on a conditional discharge (how on earth, then, was his Ring assault not enough to get him locked up?)
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In 2017 he was arrested on weapons expenses after getting caught with a loaded 9mm.
In 2015, he was caught with a gravity knife.
Chance after likelihood after likelihood to get this menace away from law-abiding people and into both jail or a secure psychiatric facility.
But as a result of of lawless progressive insurance policies and an completely insufficient system for the violent mentally unwell, Caleb Rijos died.
He didn’t have to.
His death was a selection made by our disorder-cheering electeds, and by the mental-health bureaucrats who discover it too burdensome to focus on the worst madmen.
Choices that go away these ticking timebombs free till they lastly do one thing horrible enough that it will probably no longer be ignored.
A system that solely now admits that Waldo Mejia is loopy is itself insane.
