Heroin addict to judge: Put me in jail

YOUNGSTOWN — Kayla Dempsey is so desperate to break her heroin addiction she had an unusual request today when she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor drug charge in Youngstown Municipal Court: She asked to be sent to jail.

Judge Elizabeth Kobly obliged, sentencing Dempsey, 25, to 30 days in Mahoning County jail, at which Dempsey broke into tears. She also told Dempsey by pleading guilty to the drug-instrument possession charge, she also signs over the next two years of her life to the judge through probation, and the judge said she will be paying attention.

“You’ve got me to answer to for the next two years of your life, and I am not playing games,” Judge Kobly told her via video hookup from the jail.

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