let her know how you ve been doing but she s going to make that final decision. all we can tell her since you ve come home up till now how you ve been doing. that s a good report. that s not a bad report. we ll see what she has to say and we ll go from there. okay? thank you, sarah. all right. at today s hearing rodrick and morris will learn if they get to go home with their parents or if they must remain detained in lake county juvenile while they await their next court hearing. judge mary beth bonaventura will make the decision. there s two reasons why you order a child detained whether he s a danger to himself or others or there s an unlikelihood that he ll come back to court for the second hearing. so if you make the decision that they are a danger, you detain them, and if you find that they re not a danger then you release them to the parent. brown. right now, i feel like i m going to go home. like my probation officer for how good i been doing since i been home from b
we say we re going to do. before we jump to the most severe conclusion, the recommendation that he be shipped off away from his family and brothers and sisters who he hasn t seen in a very long time. so i would just ask the court give some credence to what he said on the stand today. thank you. judge, we ve heard that morris has done some soul searching while he s been detained for the last three weeks and apparently has seen the light. i m not sure what light it is he s seeing. what i ve heard is a person that s still not taking responsibility for anything that he does. he s not going to get services unless this court takes him and puts him in a place where he can receive services and he desperately needs services. i think that probation s recommendation for placement should be followed. listen to me and do what i m saying. you admit to one or the other. if you don t want to admit to marijuana, deny it. they ll dismiss it. you admit to resisting arrest. we ve got a young man who
do you feel any of the effects of marijuana still? no? he was released off of house arrest in april of this year. and then he failed to come to his court date in july. so he didn t appear in court. his mother did, his counselors did, his probation officer did, but morris was on runaway status. why didn t you go to court on the 24th? when everybody else did. i was scared. you were scared. did you get a chance to talk to your probation officer prior to going to court? my probation officer, he was talking about sending me a place where i didn t know. that s why i didn t go to court. because they said they were going to send me to placement for two years. the indiana juvenile courts have options other than sending young offenders to juvenile prison. kids can also be placed in a variety of rehabilitation facilities known as placement. for morris, his probation officer was recommending an extended placement in a facility where he can learn to manage his anger problems.
but you send me home, trust me, i m going to show you i can work my problem out with my whole family. morris, you remember some time back, we went through a detention hearing where you talked about your background, your history and what you wanted to have happen, correct. yes. we re not going to go through all of that for today s hearing. all i want to know is what you ve learned since you ve been locked up. what i learned is i know how to control my anger. i would like to go home with my family. can the court and can your mother believe you right now when you re saying that. yes. and my father. can you look them in the eye and tell them that that you re going to fully comply with everything. i m going to fully comply. i m going to do better. i m trying to change my life. i don t want to be angry. i got a problem. i admit. what s your problem? i have an anger problem. that s all i have, judge. anything. om home in july, until couldn t
i think i understand your testimony to be because morris is not as available or participating with these services to the extent that you think appropriate, that he should just remain locked up? well, i m basing that upon him running away from home. his mother not knowing where he is. and she was having a hard time controlling him and reasoning with him. he has failed a couple of drug tests. morris has told me on several occasions that whatever i do it s not going to work. so had you previously recommended that he undergo anger management, and you had recommended family counseling and counseling services. why don t we let it work itself through some more. let s let 9 counseling take hold, the anger management take hold before we say the answer is to keep him locked up. that would be fine but morris has tended to befriend some young men, one for instance who was shot the other day in a drive-by shooting. young people he s been associating with. i believe it s safer for morris