A Blue City judge has been heavily criticized for releasing a suspect who was re-arrested for the attack

Seattle judge Veronica Galván decision to release an armed robbery suspect who allegedly disemboweled a teenager — and a slew of similarly progressive decisions on the bench — make her “really just as dangerous as the violent suspects she’s decided to keep out on the streets,” talk show host Jason Rantz told the Fox News Digital.

Millorz J. Canales, a 17-year-old alleged member of the Norteño gang, has been charged with assault, kidnapping and robbery December 17. Canales and an accomplice allegedly lured the 14-year-old to Lions Park in Everett, KOMO News reported.

The victim, who later admitted to police his association with rival South Side Locos, was left for dead after being tied to a tree, stripped naked, stabbed eight times, the letter “N” carved into it and his entrails removed, according to the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office. The attack, which lasted 20 minutes, was captured on surveillance camera footage, according to the office.

The victim survived and ran to a nearby house for help.

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Police quickly identified Canales as the prime suspect in the attack. Police found a blood-soaked T-shirt and bloodstained green boxers when he was arrested by Everett police, KTTH reported.

Weeks earlier, on November 15, Canales was arrested for allegedly associated with gangs armed robbery in Seattle. Galvan was released without bail on Dec. 2 over the objections of the King County Prosecutor’s Office and was awaiting trial when he allegedly mutilated the 14-year-old.

“Please understand that the Ethics Rules prohibit the court from commenting on any specific case. If you wish, you may request a copy of the hearing recordings through the Clerk’s Office,” Galvan’s bailiff, Sonam Lata, told Fox News Digital.

The King County Prosecutor’s Office was not immediately available for comment.

“She doesn’t believe, especially when it comes to juvenile offenders, that prison works. It’s not a deterrent. It doesn’t change behavior,” Rantz told Fox News Digital. “The problem, of course, is that it cannot be viewed only through the lens of the desire for reform. It is also about protecting the public every day so that someone who is dangerous is not behind bars where he belongs, it is another day when he can commit a criminal offense and create another victim.

“Unfortunately, with this judge, we see it happen over and over and over again with people who stood in front of her and got a slap on the wrist, if that,” Rantz continued.

Earlier in 2024, Galvan released 12- and 13-year-old brothers accused of stealing a car using a ghost gun and leading police on a high-speed chase, Fox 13 reports.

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In July, she released three teenagers on electronic home monitoring after they allegedly threatened parade-goers with loaded weapons modified to be automatic. Prosecutors argued that the teenagers should be kept behind bars for the safety of the community, KOMO News reported. However, Galvan said she wants to see if teenagers can make a difference through community support programs.

“We’ve been locking people up for years and years, and the crime is still here. Kids still do inappropriate things, we still have troubling behaviors,” she said, according to the media release. “This is going to take a lot more than just putting people in and locking it without a key.”

Rantz said Galvan’s behavior on the bench “is a perfect example of what happens when you take your ideology and make it part of your job, where you look at the decisions you make through a very specific social, ideological lens focused on justice.”

Moreover, he said, Galvan is not the only soft-on-crime judge who regularly acquits suspects who have committed more serious crimes.

“I have a rule of thumb on my radio show that when I cover any of these stories: If I remember a judge’s name, it’s almost never for the right reasons,” Rantz said. “It’s always because of the soft-on-crime policies they’ve implemented and adopted. And I recognize a lot of the names of the judges. Unfortunately, it’s because many of those judges make reckless, dangerous decisions that put dangerous people back on the street.”

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“It’s not just about Veronica Galvan. I probably could have written a similar story about a number of judges, dozens of judges across the state. She happened to be on a very high-profile case that caught my attention,” Rantz said.

Both Seattle and Washington state are “living the consequences” of progressive court rulings, he said.

“A lot of the judges that we have and a lot of the prosecutors that we have in the state have really taken the position that they want to dismantle the criminal justice system and then rebuild it through this very specific ideological lens — we saw that in the most obvious ways during the BLM movement from 2020 to 2021. , where they literally used language, dismantled the criminal justice system and rebuilt it,” Rantz said.

“We’ve seen policies and laws that have been changed that have specifically tried to do that, to create a system where justice is not actually blind,” he continued. “That based on someone’s identity as a defendant, they are treated differently, more positively for them, negatively for the victim. That is the unfortunate reality we have… Washington State he has been infected with this kind of vigilant thinking for a very long time.”

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Galvan was appointed to her position by Washington Governor Jay Inslee in 2014. Since then, she has run unopposed for re-election multiple times.

“We have a problem in King County, especially in Seattle, where we have a lot of vacancies that end up being filled because of the appointment of a Democratic governor. And then nobody stands up. It’s a failure, I think, on the part of the … local Republican Party,” Rantz said. “Either you’re going to try to get the best of the best to show up and run for those positions or you’re going to continue to see what we’ve seen, which is just giving all that power to the radicals.”