Follow-up: Sovenski sentenced to 180 days of work-release after hurling racial slurs at teens

Richard Sovenski, the Hayden, Idaho, man who hurled racial slurs at a Spokane youth group and allegedly assaulted an adult accompanying them last summer, was recently found guilty of misdemeanor battery by a jury. Now, he's reportedly been sentenced to 180 days of work-release.

Under his work-release sentence, Sovenski must sleep in a correctional facility but will be allowed to leave during the day for his construction job.

"I'm happy that he will be serving some time," says Jose Ceniceros, the former youth community director at Immanuel Church in Spokane who was with the teens during the incident. "I'm glad he got what he got."

The case stems from an altercation last summer. On July 12, Ceniceros led a group of teens — some of whom were biracial — to Coeur d'Alene to hear a preacher speak before heading to a McDonald's for ice cream. As they were leaving, Sovenski, 52, allegedly knocked Ceniceros to the ground and proceeded to yell racial slurs and profanities and told them to "get the f—- out of Idaho." (Ceniceros says he started filming with his cellphone after he was punched, and captured Sovenski's outburst on video.)

Read more: https://www.inlander.com/spokane/sovenski-sentenced-to-180-days-of-work-release-after-hurling-racial-slurs-at-teens/Content?oid=16261671

Earlier thread:
Man who yelled racial slurs at teenagers at Coeur d'Alene McDonald's not convicted of hate crime
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