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Part One: Darkness Visible
Just joining us? This is part one of a five part series. See the whole series. Kyle Boyer When Suzanne and John Boyer left their upper-middle class home for work on the morning of May 20, 2008, their...
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Part Two: The Sympathetic Judge
Just joining us? This is part two of a five part series. Start from the beginning. Juvenile Court Judge Juanita Stedman, who presides over Cobb County, Georgia’s Juvenile Drug Court has gotten to know...
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Part Three: A Friend and Reason for Hope
Just joining us? This is part three of a five part series. Start from the beginning. Kyle Boyer Kyle Boyer, 15-year-old prescription drug addict, duped his parents once again, faking a stomach ache to...
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Part Four: Redemption and Temptation
Just joining us? This is part four of a five part series. Start from the beginning. Kyle Boyer Kyle is now only a little more than four and a half months clean. His last relapse came during the...
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Part Five: A Day In Drug Court
Just joining us? This is part five of a five part series. Start from the beginning. Cobb County, Ga’s., Juvenile Court Judge Juanita Stedman’s office overflows every Wednesday at 4 p.m. For an hour,...
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Part Five: The Big Trouble With Oxy
Just joining us? This is part five of a five part series. Start from the beginning. Scott Merritt, a certified addictions counselor and licensed therapist in metro Atlanta, estimates that about 40...
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Taking the Time to Make Juvenile Court Work
A couple of weeks ago, I was in juvenile delinquency court and as often happens, a particular case got me thinking – and rethinking – about the system as a whole. A 14 year-old, whom I will call Sarah,...
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