India, March 26 -- A six-month sentence handed to a trans illegal immigrant who admitted to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Manhattan sparked outrage Wednesday, March 25. The unusually short sentence has left a victims' rights group and former prosecutors in shock.

The slap-on-the-wrist plea deal was struck by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office with Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, a 31-year-old transgender woman from Colombia. The 2025 assault of the 14-year-old boy took place in East Harlem.

"I didn't know you could get six months on this," said Seth Zuckerman, a former prosecutor in the Brooklyn DA's Office and current criminal defense lawyer, according to the New York Post.

"It's generally a minimum of two and a max...