Two Cleveland, Ohio, women who were both arrested and charged with stealing thousands, received vastly different outcomes. Debbie Bosworth, a white former town's clerk, was charged with embezzling nearly $250,000 from the city over two decades. For her crime, county court Judge Hollie Gallagher sentenced her to two years of probation, according to local publication Cleveland. According to WKYC, Bosworth started working for the city in 1997, overseeing payments and other accounting duties. The judge said Bosworth didn't deserve to go to jail because she repaid the money she stole before Monday's hearing. The mayor also did not request she serve a prison sentence in a letter he wrote to the court. In the same county, however, Judge Rick Bell sentenced a Black woman to serve 18 months in prison for a similar crime. Karla Hopkins was charged with stealing more than $40,000 from school money intended for Maple Heights High School's graduating class of 2018. Debbie Bosworth, white...
