{"id":8626,"date":"2017-10-12T19:17:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/?p=8626"},"modified":"2022-06-28T08:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:58:17","slug":"offender-tries-novel-approach-to-remove-weight-from-my-shoulders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/offender-tries-novel-approach-to-remove-weight-from-my-shoulders\/","title":{"rendered":"Offender tries novel approach to “remove weight from my shoulders”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plea started out like many GoFundMe pages with an entreaty to help raise $10,000.<\/p>\n

But unlike pages set up to pay outrageous medical bills or cover funeral expenses, Jan Michael Nieves Delgado, 22, took to the popular crowdfunding site for a different reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in 2014 I made a big mistake while being enlisted in the Army, ended up being kicked out unfairly and even though I got probation since I was involved in an accident, now I have to pay $10,000 in restitution to fix all damages,\u201d Nieves wrote on the account created in June.<\/p>\n

It continues, \u201cIt\u2019s been really hard to pay that much back when you have probation and it becomes so hard to find a job and then when you find a job you don\u2019t make enough. Please help me pay back and get some weight off my shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n

What was his big \u201cmistake?\u201d<\/h2>\n
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Jimmy Broadstreet with his wife and daughters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He made the choice to with a Blood Alcohol Concentration of .118, according to the police, which resulted in the deaths of two innocent men. In what family members call an insult, the offender\u00a0received a 10-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay $10,000 — $5,000 to each of the families who will live a lifetime without their loved ones.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the weight he wants \u201coff his shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs $5,000 worth a man\u2019s life,\u201d asked Monica Broadstreet, whose husband, Jimmy Joe Broadstreet, was one of the two men killed by Delgado. \u201cI would gladly give $100,000 if I could have my husband back. He (Delgado)<\/p>\n

deserves to struggle, to remember what he\u2019s done because God knows I will. Does he think it is easy for me now? It\u2019s not. It\u2019s a struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

The crash<\/h2>\n

The day before Mother\u2019s Day in 2014 and Monica and Jimmy fell asleep after watching movies together. Monica woke Jimmy up, so he could go to work. Jimmy planned to work overtime so he could attend a rodeo later in the month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still wonder if I had never woken him up, would he still be here?\u201d said Monica, who met Jimmy 25 years ago and were married 23 of those years.<\/p>\n

Delgado was driving fast the wrong way at 78 miles an hour in a freeway construction zone. He hit James Green, throwing him over a construction crane killing him instantly. The massive force of the impact pinned Jimmy and moved the 2,000-pound counter-weight for the crane.<\/p>\n

That early morning of the crash, Monica woke up to headlights in her driveway.\u00a0The wife of Jimmy\u2019s boss told Monica Jimmy was hurt, in the hospital and may lose his leg.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started to prepare myself mentally so that I could let Jimmy know that everything was going to be okay. I immediately started thinking I was going to tell Jimmy how much I loved him and that it didn\u2019t matter we could live with that. My plan was that I would stay home to take care of him. It was going to be okay because we would have each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After arriving at the hospital, Monica, a nurse, fought her way into the surgery room. Jimmy was practically in a coma as he lost so much blood. One of his legs had already been amputated. Transfusion after transfusion took place. A second medical team replaced the exhausted first team after operations stretched past 10 hours.<\/p>\n

Throughout it all, Monica held Jimmy\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe always wanted to be touching me, so I held his hand. If I let go, he would reach back out for it,\u201d said Monica. \u201cI knew he understood that I was there by his side.\u201d I said to Jimmy, \u201cI love you. I will always love you. I\u2019ll take care of everything,\u2019 I know he heard me as I saw a tear fall from his face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, the doctors shared that their efforts weren\u2019t making progress and, worse, were probably hurting Jimmy. They asked Monica to make the call no family member ever wants to make \u2013 to stop.<\/p>\n

With a heavy heart, Monica made \u201cthe most difficult decision of her life and let Jimmy go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Aftermath<\/h2>\n
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