U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani isn't just doling out prison terms in the college admissions scandal. She's articulating its larger significance.
BOSTON — As U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani prepared to sentence a Los Angeles business executive in the nation's college admissions scandal last month, she first had something to say about the motives of parents like him.
Six more parents who've pleaded guilty are set to be sentenced by Talwani this month, beginning today with the first couple, Gregory and Marcia Abbott. The Abbotts, who reside in New York and Aspen, Colorado, paid a total of $125,000 to have their daughter's college entrance exams answers fixed to get her into Duke University, her mother's alma mater.
Story continues"People are thinking about it," he said. "It's raising lots of questions for people." "Think about how terrifying that process is for the applicant whose parents didn't go to college,” Talwani said at his sentencing hearing. She singled out inner-city and rural children who lacked resources but made it to college anyway. “Their legitimacy is challenged every day that somehow they were the ones who got a break to get there.”
Talwani has given harsher sentences to parents who took part in the admissions plot, noting that it took a college seat away from a deserving student. Huffman told the judge her decision to pay Singer $15,000 to correct her daughter's SAT answers was rooted in concern as a mother for a child with learning disabilities. In sentencing Huffman to 14 days in prison Talwani added, "I don’t think anyone wants to go to prison. I think without this sentence you would be looking at a future with a community around you asking how you got away with this.
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