Lauren Boebert’s son sentenced to 20 days of jail work release
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s eldest son will have to spend at least 20 nights in jail after his toddler son wandered out of their house, a judge ruled Friday after the congresswoman urged her to allow Tyler Boebert to continue to work and care for his young son.
Tyler Boebert, 21, pleaded guilty in April to one count of misdemeanor child abuse that didn’t cause injury, said Krista Henery, a spokesperson for the 19th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Charges in a second incident of alleged child abuse were dropped, Boebert’s attorney, Joseph Gavaldon, said after the sentencing hearing in Weld County, where Tyler Boebert used to live with his mother.
Weld County Judge Michele Meyer considered both in determining his sentence.
In court, Lauren Boebert asked Meyer to keep her son’s family intact.
“Mercy here your honor is not softness. Mercy is the difference between correcting the father and orphaning a child for the hours that matter most,” she said.
Prosecutor Brice Rudolph had asked Meyer to sentence Tyler Boebert to 30 days in jail.
Meyer said she was concerned both incidents happened so close together at a time while Tyler Boebert was being supervised as part of a deferred sentence in an attempted identity theft case in Garfield County. She sentenced him to 20 days in a work release program at the Weld County jail, which allows people to work during the day but return to the jail at night. However, Meyer delayed her sentencing order from taking effect until after Tyler Boebert is sentenced in the Garfield County case. He is scheduled to be resentenced Thursday in that case.
Garfield County prosecutors are asking that Tyler Boebert’s deferred sentence be revoked in that case, Gavaldon told Meyer. They plan to ask that his new sentence in that case be served at the same time as the one in Weld County, he said.
If Tyler Boebert is sentenced to work release for the same length of time in Garfield County, where he now lives, Meyer said he can serve both of his sentences at the same time there. But if he receives a shorter sentence in Garfield County, he must serve his work release sentence in Weld County, she said.
Tyler Boebert has also been charged in Garfield County with sexual exploitation of a child and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for allegedly making and sharing video footage of him having sex with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18. He is also scheduled to appear in court Thursday in this case for an arraignment.