Thug Who’s Terrorized NYC Since He Was 14 Still Getting Breaks Thanks To Raise The Age Law
A 21-year-old gun-toting thug
has been terrorizing Staten Island for years thanks to the state’s Raise the Age Law — notching even attempted-slay raps before netting anything close to real punishment, law-enforcement sources say.
Lloyd Francis was first busted at age 14 and has now been arrested a half-dozen times on attempted-murder, robbery, assault and felony gun-possession charges.
Yet before being convicted of his sixth serious crime last month, Francis — a suspected member of the local Town Savages Only gang — had served a total of about two years behind bars because of the Empire State’s lax juvenile justice statutes, according to records and sources.

The same coddling laws ensure that half of his arrests are sealed, too, meaning their details and dispositions are kept from public scrutiny.
Francis was finally hit with a 10-year prison term after being convicted of his second attempted-murder charge earlier this year.
But even then, the sentence was just a fraction of the 25 years he could have faced if he hadn’t been considered a juvenile in the earlier cases.
“He has the criminal history of someone three times his age before he’s even 21,” a disgusted law-enforcement sources said.
“There’s no hope for this kid. If you’re picking up your first attempted-murder at 14 and you’re doing 10 years for your second at 19, you’re on your way to life.”
The New York youth statute, which was implemented in two stages in 2017 and 2018, raised the age of criminal responsibility in the state to 18 and allowed defendants as old as 21 to be held at juvenile facilities.
On the heels of Raise the Age, state lawmakers also adopted measures that prohibited judges from setting bail on nearly all criminal cases, save for the most violent felonies.
“Are we trying to rehabilitate or walk them off the side of a cliff?” a disgusted law-enforcement sources said of the loopy Raise the Age Law.
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