STONY POINT – Relatives, friends and public officials, Sunday, called for the state to immediately suspend the new criminal justice reforms, which are set to kick in on January 1.
Their cry comes following the hit-and-run killing of Rosie Osai, who was walking along Route 9W in Stony Point on Christmas Eve.
Her accused killer, Jorge Flores-Villabla, is an illegal alien, who was unlicensed to drive. He has been released without bail ahead of the new state law.
“Every morning I got up for work Rosie came outside and knocked on my door and told me a story,” reflected her cousin, Sheila Harris. “Christmas morning I waited for that story and it never came,” she said.
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Assemblyman Colin Schmitt (R, New Windsor), who assembled the community on Sunday, said “Rosie and her family deserve justice. The governor and Democrats in the state legislature have caused this injustice and allowed Rosie’s killed to walk free.”
He said the bail reform was created “without any input from law enforcement and a tragedy was inevitably going to occur.”
Rockland County Executive Edwin Day said, “This is not justice when an admitted killer walks out and goes home when a family is still mourning and some family members had not even been notified yet.”
Day called on the Democrat majority in the state legislature “to look here at Rockland County now and understand that this is just the beginning of tragedy.”
