LYNN, Mass. (AP) — A white Massachusetts woman has pleaded guilty to assault and civil rights charges and been sentenced to probation for driving her car toward 3 Black women & their & children outside a cookie shop & yelling racial slurs at them, prosecutors said.
Rhonda Wozniak, 61, of Lynn, was sentenced Tuesday in Lynn District Court to 9 months of probation in the encounter in the parking lot of a Swampscott cookie shop. She was also ordered to perform 40 hours of community service & stay away from the victims.
The women & the children, who ranged in age from 5 to 12, were returning to their cars after visiting the shop on the evening of July 28, 2020, when Wozniak “came speeding toward them in her motor vehicle, nearly hitting them,” according to the prosecution’s account.
When 1 of the women asked her to slow down, Wozniak shouted racial insults & slurs “& told them to go back where they belong,” prosecutors said.
“The defendant’s action were harmful & offensive, not only to the victims, but also to the community at large,” prosecutors said.
Wozniak was identified through her vehicle’s license plate, which was captured on video by 1 of the victims & on surveillance video from a business.
Wozniak’s attorneys, Doug Ryan and Joe Simons, said in a statement that they had been preparing for a trial but that their client “ultimately decided to plead guilty & in exchange was sentenced to probation.”
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