PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island woman has been sentenced to serve six years behind bars for fatally stabbing a 15-year-old boy, a sentence that outraged the victim’s family.
Twenty-year-old Natashza Charon was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison, with six to serve and the remainder suspended, after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the May 2017 death of Jaheim Carter during a fight in Providence.
The victim’s mother, Majeita Carter, told the Providence Journal that “justice wasn’t served at all” and Charon was “getting away with it.”
Prosecutors had sought 10 years behind bars.
The stabbing stemmed from a fight involving several people between members of Carter’s family and the family of Charon’s boyfriend. Charon was 18 at the time.
Charon’s attorney said her client is remorseful.
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