all right, thank you. you may have a seat back there. the purpose of today s hearing is to determine what should happen to ayryana. do you have an opinion as to what the court should do? i want my daughter home with me. how is she doing in school? she s doing real good this year. i took her to a different school. i didn t want her with the same people. do you believe that the environment at her former school was part of the reason why she was having her anger problems? yes. so you recognized the problem and did something about it? yes. are you able to provide supervision over her? yes. when do you work? i work swing shifts, rotating backwards. explain that in a little more detail. i finish midnights today and i start afternoons wednesday. with such an irregular work schedule, it falls on ayryana to take over the responsibilities at home and play mother to her two brothers. a source of much frustration for her and partially why ayryana finds herself here
arrested, then? i don t know. i have no further questions, judge. all right, thank you. you may have a seat back there. the purpose of today s hearing is to determine what should happen to ayryana. do you have an opinion as to what the court should do? i want my daughter home with me. how is she doing in school? she s doing real good this year. i took her to a different school. i didn t want her with the same people. do you believe that the environment at her former school was part of the reason why she was having her anger problems? yes. so you recognized the problem and did something about it? yes. are you able to provide supervision over her? yes. when do you work? i work swing shifts, rotating backwards. explain that in a little more detail. i finish midnights today and i start afternoons wednesday. with such an irregular work schedule, it falls on ayryana to take over the responsibilities at home and play mother to her two brothers.
profanities at him? no, i wasn t. how was it you became arrested, then? i don t know. i have no further questions, judge. all right, thank you. you may have a seat back there. the purpose of today s hearing is to determine what should happen to ayryana. do you have an opinion as to what the court should do? i want my daughter home with me. how is she doing in school? she s doing real good this year. i took her to a different school. i didn t want her with the same people. do you believe that the environment at her former school was part of the reason why she was having her anger problems? yes. so you recognized the problem and did something about it? yes. are you able to provide supervision over her? yes. when do you work? i work swing shifts, rotating backwards. explain that in a little more detail. i finish midnights today and i start afternoons wednesday.
never has this been so painfully clear than when 16-year-old ayryana gets a visit from her mother. you can t go to girls school. because it s like you re the center of the household. you can t go to girls school. what is everybody going to do? going to girls school means going to juvenile prison. a frightening prospect on its own. but ayryana also has to face what her absence could mean to the welfare of her entire family. on top of that, i have to pay your fees while i m here tonight. that s $110 plus the money i lost saturday, which was overtime. because ayryana s mom works swing shifts at the local factory, it s up to ayryana to help raise her brothers and handle household chores. you got to get it together. i feel like i m having panic attacks. you re not home. i can t talk to you. i didn t go to work friday. i couldn t get it together. stayed home. messed with your brothers. tried to get them to stop crying.
for ayryana, who regularly cares for her brothers while her mom works swing shifts at a local factory, being away from home makes an already tough situation worse. i can t take it in here. three days being locked up, not doing anything. that s not good. after a while you start to get a little crazy. some seem to be so happy. it s like, how are you happy and you re in here? how do they do that? nationally nearly 30% of juvenile arrests involve females. sometimes the closed quarters and inherent anxiety of being locked up help create unexpected bonds. most of my friends are locked up right now, so there are a few girls that are good friends to me. like i can relate to them a lot. they re just really kind to me. just like me, i guess. a lot of stories. a lot of hardships. 17-year-old marie has a history of arrest for truancy