Redford Woman Gets Probation In Video Beating Of Teen Boy
MOUNT CLEMENS (WWJ/AP) - A 20-year-old metro Detroit woman has received three years' probation for using a belt to beat her 14-year-old cousin in a videotaped attack that was posted online.
Tajenae Grady of Redford and her younger brother were visiting their cousin in Warren when the beating occurred, according to prosecutors. The Macomb Daily reports Grady and her brother repeatedly whipped their cousin with a belt after he was stealing items at school.
Judge Mary Chrzanowski sentenced Grady on Thursday in Mount Clemens. The sentence is under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act. That means the conviction and a six-month jail sentence will be erased if she successfully completes probation.
Grady's 16-year-old brother, charged in juvenile court, was also sentenced to probation.
"This beating shocks the conscience," said Macomb County Prosecutor Smith, when charges were filed in the case last spring. "This sort of savagery will not be tolerated within our borders."
A 12-year-old relative who recorded the abuse on his cell phone initially distributed that video to neighbors. It ended up on Facebook where it went viral.
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