the family support in these hearings or in general with the kids whether in the hearing or outside the hearing is monumental. i think if there was one single thing that i would point to to be able to predict the success or failure of a young person is the family involvement and support. sounds like for about four years now the court has been involved not only with his life, but obviously your life as well. mm-hmm. so he s turned 18 now. you re a family that s had a lot of intervention. pretty quickly there will be none. we are here to back him up 100%. i do have a lot of family support. everybody is pulling for him. you know, but he has to pull for himself. ma am? judge, i m really torn. everybody s tapdancing around the shooting of devon. that wasn t a stray bullet that entered his arm. that was a purposeful act in
her demand, better facilities for kids and families. the family support in these hearings or in general with the kids whether in the hearing or outside the hearing is monumental. i think if there was one single thing that i would point to to be able to predict the success or failure of a young person is the family involvement and support. sounds like for about four years now the court has been involved not only with his life, but obviously your life as well. mm-hmm. so he s turned 18 now. you re a family that s had a lot of intervention. pretty quickly there will be none. we are here to back him up 100%. i do have a a lot of family support. everybody is pulling for him. you know, but he has to pull for himself. judge, i m really torn. everybody s tapdancing around the shooting of devon. that wasn t a stray bullet that
so how many other brothers and sisters do you have? besides us? yes. right now there are nine. are you the oldest? i m the oldest girl, yes. is there a dad in the picture? he was until about four months ago. he was incarcerated. kenneth is the one who s really been the man of the house. he s really our backbone. that s all i have. ma am? no questions, judge. ken, we spoke yesterday about what the court is here today to decide. that is whether you should stay detained or whether you should be released. i should be released because i know i ain t a bad kid. i ain t no harm to nobody. i just made a bad decision at that moment. i know i did something wrong. but i know i can fix it. now i know that life is serious, and life more is about me being at home and being with my family than being locked up. kenneth, how many times have you been on probation with this court? twice.
your sons be placed in a residential placement for the purpose of receiving a variety of services and educational tools and things like that? yes. what did you want to say with respect to those options? do you think your kids can come home with you today or should they it s for the best. i want them to come home, but if they need help, i agree with that. you will just leave it to the court to decide? yes. that s all i have, judge. thank you. you may have a seat back there. judge, there s no argument that kentrell needs some type of therapeutic placement. the psychological evaluation shows that kentrell has
gary but juvenile crime does not discriminate. he had a bench warrant. he failed to appear in court. he had a criminal mischief and two counts of violation of probation. his mother was present. his probation officer was present. but he was not, so i was walking down the street. i had a bench warrant for not appearing at court and a cop knew me by face and just turned around and picked me up. the nurse said you can have an extra blanket to roll up to keep your arm up, okay, while you re in your room. he just told me when i asked what had happened to his arm that he was robbing a drug dealer and he stated that he was trying to be good to keep the drugs off the street. well, i have a reputation as a drug dealer, a gang member, just a bad kid. when i m 18, these will just be dropped, won t they? no. they won t?