Three people will face misdemeanor charges for vandalizing the car of a transgender Plain Township teen and nearby homes.

PLAIN TWP. Three suspects will face criminal charges accusing them of vandalizing a transgender teen's car.

The Stark County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that they had identified three teens and were in the process of serving the 18-year-old and two juveniles with warrants for misdemeanor charges.

The Canton Repository does not typically name misdemeanor crime suspects.

The Jocas family has been the target of ongoing harassment they say is aimed at their teenage daughter, Donovanne. Over the course of six months, someone threw eggs at the family's home, beat Donovanne's car with a baseball bat and spray painted the car with an explicit message and drawing.

Donovanne Jocas, a recent Hoover High graduate, began presenting as female at the start of the school year.

The adult suspect will be charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and complicity to criminal damaging. One juvenile will be charged with criminal damaging tied to the damage to Donovanne's car. A second juvenile will be charged with complicity to criminal damaging for vandalizing other property.

Earlier this week, the Sheriff's Office said they would talk with the city prosecutor's office about pursuing hate crime charges.

Those charges are not possible because the suspects damaged other property in Plain Township and North Canton unrelated to the Jocas family, said Major John Oliver of the Stark County Sheriff's Office.

"That's disappointing. It's very frustrating," said Michelle Jocas, Donovanne's mom.

Other homes may have been vandalized, but those families weren't victim to the same escalating harassment, she said.

Donovanne has experienced ongoing harassment, and suspects bragged about their actions on social media, she said.

Jocas took to her own social media accounts after Donovanne's car was vandalized in an effort to force the culprits to come forward.

"I guess it's time... To do what we can to change the laws so that these kinds of things (can't happen)," she said.

"They should be charged (more harshly). What they're doing is really making people scared, making them live in fear. I don't understand how you can be slapped on the wrist like that."

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