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Woman Who Intentionally Struck Black, Latina Children With Car Gets 25 Years By Joseph Patrick Representational image
A 43-year-old Iowa woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for intentionally hitting two children of color with her car in 2019.
Nicole Poole Franklin, of Des Moines, received a 25-year sentence after admitting to intentionally running over a 14-year-old girl with her SUV on Dec. 9, 2019, because she was Latina. She also received a concurrent 25-year sentence in Polk County Court for deliberately striking a 12-year-old boy, who is Black, the same day she hit the girl, The Des Moines Register reported.
Poole also hurled racial and ethnic slurs at a gas employee at the time, police said.