Criminals Owe $2 Billion to Pa. Victims & Courts, Report Says
Billions of dollars of unpaid restitution were recorded in a new Pa. state report – some of it from car accidents and drunken driving incidents.
By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent HARRISBURG — Christine Horner remembers — 5:23 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, 2006. She was driving on a main road in Chester County, in a brand-new SUV she bought a few months before. Another car was coming off a side road. The driver later claimed he didn’t see her. Horner’s car smashed into a tree, the front crushed. She was trapped, unable to move. The other driver, a repeat criminal offender, was drunk. Horner spent 15 days in the hospital, though it would be nine months before she would work again. The bones in her right ankle were practically “obliterated,” repaired through several skin-stretching and bone-to-bone fusion surgeries. Her pelvis and clavicle were fractured. Doctors said it would take …
Kaos8
3:36 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
I am someone who is owed a bunch of money from a civil matter- that in my opinion should be a criminal matter at this point- due to pure disregard of a judges order- so me spending a bunch of money on attorney fees- and seeing not a single penny from these deadbeats...Why is jail time and forcing them to do labor- not an option? It is obvious these people will never do the right thing, unless … more ›