‘This Woman Desperately Needed Help’: Judge Sentenced Iowa Woman Who Ran Over Two Children Because of Their Race to 25 Years On Hate Crime Charges
On Thursday, Aug. 19, U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of Iowa, Stephanie Rose, sentenced Nicole Poole Franklin to more than two decades in prison on two federal hate crime charges. In April, Franklin admitted to running her SUV into two children because she thought they were of Middle Eastern, African, or Mexican descent…
