Dantey Moore, the 27-year-old thug who allegedly stabbed to death Staten Island grandmother Geetha Howie, has a criminal rap sheet as wide as the streets on which he was allowed to roam freely.
Thanks to revolving-door “justice.”
According to the police account of the crime, Moore in broad daylight repeatedly stabbed Howie in the face and chest, then cradled her dying body until police and paramedics arrived. (He claims to have no recollection of what he did to the grandma.)That a man who’d been in and out of jail for four years was out on probation, and so free to commit such a heinous act, is a grotesque miscarriage of justice.
He’d been arrested 34 times, including two busts for PCP possession. His history of violence had won him at least six restraining orders and included punching a 7-year-old and shoving a 3-year-old.
As The Post reported from its review of 12 criminal cases dating back to 2014 (15 other Moore cases are still sealed), he routinely drew light sentences despite routinely breaking those restraining orders.
Notably, he pleaded guilty or was convicted of misdemeanor criminal contempt five times. That carries a maximum one-year sentence — yet Moore never spent more than 90 days in jail.
In three cases in 2015 and 2016, Judge Ray Rodriguez time and again gave Moore just 45 days in the pen.
Mercy is one thing, but failing to rein in a repeat offender — a man, again, who broke multiple restraining orders — isn’t judicial liberalism: It’s madness.