Imagine being in your car, peacefully driving, when suddenly something rock-hard breaks your
windshield (挡风玻璃), hits you and breaks nearly every bone in your face. It 1 out that the
"weapon" was a frozen turkey, 2 from the window of a speeding car by a teenage college
student out for a joyriding with friends.
That's what 3 last November to Victoria Ruvolo, a 44-year-old office manager, on a road
in the far eastern town of Riverhead on Long Island. She could have been 4 , and she could
have had brain damage. Doctors had to 5 her face, using metal plates and screws. Surprisingly,
she recovered and within a few months was 6 on her own and working again.
But that's not the 7 story. It's what happened the following August in court (法庭) that makes
this a tale to 8 . The boy who threw the turkey was 19-year-old Ryan Cushing, who had poor
eyesight. He was 9 of a first-degree assault (袭击) charge and could have 10 up to 25 years
in prison. And then Ruvolo stepped in.
She saw Cushing for the first time coming out of the courtroom. He stopped, chocking and crying as
he tried to 11 to her.
"For an intensely emotional few minutes, Ruvolo 12 him tightly, wiped his face and patted his
back as he cried uncontrollably," wrote a New York Times reporter. As the young man kept saying, "I'm
sorry; I didn't mean it," the woman he could have killed 13 , "It's OK. It's OK. I just want you to
make your 14 the best it can be."
Then, at Rubolo's insistence (坚持), prosecutors (检察官) agreed to give Cushing six months in jail
instead of 25 years in prison.
One man later said that in his 30 years as a prosecutor he had not seen such a 15 victim. |
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