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Grazzini-Rucki opts for incarceration rather than probation
Barbara L. Jones//September 21, 2016//
Listen to this articleSandra Grazzini-Rucki will have to have another sentencing hearing, but according to Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom’s office, she will do an additional 233 days in jail, on top of the 133 she has already served. Under the initial sentence she also would have received additional annual jail and sentence to service sanctions. She was also fined $1,888, which represents $1 for each day the two daughters were missing, ordered to pay $10,000 restitution to the Minnesota Crime Victims’ Reparation Board and also ordered to pay for future counseling expenses which may be incurred.
She was convicted of six counts of deprivation of custodial rights and sentenced on two, one for the father and one for the girls’ paternal aunt.
Grazzini-Rucki was represented in the custody proceeding by Supreme Court candidate Michelle MacDonald.
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