A U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of Iowa sentenced Nicole Poole Franklin, who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 because of their race, to 25 years and four months in prison on federal hate crimes charges. Poole told police she intentionally struck a 14-year-old with her SUV because the girl was Latina and a Black 12-year-old boy because he appeared to be Middle Eastern and a member of an Islamic terrorist group.

Poole, 43, of Des Moines pleaded guilty in state court in April to two counts of attempted murder. She was sentenced to 25-year-concurrent sentences for those charges in May. Her federal hate crime sentence will run concurrently to her attempted murder sentence by the state. The victim's family submitted sealed victim impact statements to the court, but did not wish to have them read aloud.

Poole's attorney asked the judge, when sentencing his client, to consider Poole's severe mental health illnesses — including schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and substance abuse — as well as traumatic events in her life. Her attorney called her mental illness and traumatic events a "toxic cocktail" for the events leading up to Dec. 9, 2019, when Poole hit the children with her vehicle and told police she'd done so because of their race and ethnicity. Since then, he said, Poole has taken responsibility.Poole herself apologized to the victims and their families in court Thursday.

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