An aggressive customer from Ohio who attacked a restaurant employee by throwing food in her face was able to trade her prison sentence for two months walking in her victim’s shoes, to learn empathy.
“Do you want to walk in (the victim’s) shoes for two months and learn how people should treat others, or do you want to serve your prison sentence?” Judge Timothy Gilligan offered it to him this week, according to CBS News on Wednesday.
Last week, American Rosemary Hayne was found guilty of assault after being filmed without her knowledge while throwing a full meal in the face of a young Chipotle employee, Emily Russell, 26.
But if the judge had initially sentenced the woman to 180 days in prison, accompanied by 90 days suspended, the magistrate changed his mind by instead offering the aggressive client to take the place of her victim, working for two months as an employee of ‘a fast food chain to suffer behind the scenes.
“I asked myself, ‘Why should the city taxpayers pay for her and feed her for 90 days in jail if I can teach her the meaning of empathy,'” the judge told Fox station WJW .
Thus, Rosemary Hayne will have to work 20 hours a week behind the counter for two months, which only corresponds to a fraction of the hours her victim was working at the time of the attack, the latter noted in an interview with CBS. MoneyWatch.
“She is lucky to only work 20 hours a week – I worked 65 hours a week,” noted the young woman, nevertheless satisfied with the turn of events. No one should suffer any physical attack. It’s OK to have a bad day, but not do something like that.”
