District Attorney George Gascon has admitted that a woman who was convicted of molesting a young girl may have been given too lenient of a sentence, after he refused to prosecute her as an adult for the , which she committed as a male juvenile. The progressive DA, which has been widely criticized as being soft on crime, on Friday backtracked on some of his most controversial policies, including not pursuing sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole, and not prosecuting juveniles accused of serious offenses as adults.Gascon's sudden about-face comes as he faces a second recall effort organized by his critics, who contend that his woke policies are to blame for Los Angeles' rising crime rates.
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