i m going to bonaventura? will you state your name, please? devon starkey. how old are you, devon? i m 18. we re here because devon was arrested on a bench warrant issued by the court. it says here your whereabouts were unknown by the juvenile lake county probation department. further he has failed to attend his court-ordered counseling and lastly, he has failed to attend an educational program on a regular basis. go on and have a seat up here, please. you were ordered by the court to attend counseling, is that correct? yes, ma am. did you attend counseling? i had left the home and was trying to live on my own. so i didn t attend from april to june. let s talk about why you left the home. why did you leave your mother s home? the reason i left is we started getting into arguments. i was getting into a little bit of trouble. i started smoking weed again. i left the home because i was scared that when i did go to
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? no. it s up to the judge. but he didn t come to the court thinking i m going to turn 18, everything is going to be dropped.
my problem with kenneth is that he s committed numerous acts of delinquency. that s what indiana boy school is meant to address. then you factor in that he s had counseling provided to him, and he hasn t been terribly amin bl to the counseling. he has a track record and the track record isn t very good at this point. you know, it s a serious matter for this court to decide that it s going to invest itself in a child to the extent that this county and this court is being asked to invest themselves in kenneth and i don t see that there s going to be a lot of banb for our buck, to be perfectly honest. i think he s a dangerous person. i think he should be committed to indiana boy school. well, i would agree that i think indiana boy school can address a lot of the issues that kenneth is facing. i know this much, if he were in
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. 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 response to something devon was doing in a criminal nature.
to your sister, and your sister supposedly is coming, although she was supposed to be here at 8:30 and she s not here yet. it s now about noon. so that s the update on things. i need to get out. is there something you want me to tell your sister when i talk to her again? she s supposed to call me back in a few minutes. tell her she needs to bring my mom up here. i need my mom up here. i ll let her know. hang tight here for a little while longer an we ll see if either your mother or sister can get here then we can get to court, okay?