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[Applause]00:00:32
we've been following mom Delina since00:00:34
2000 when a judge pointed her out to our00:00:36
producers as one of the few kids who00:00:38
defy the odds we were told if ever there00:00:41
was a success story in the child welfare00:00:44
system this teenage mom is the girl I00:00:47
had to take my mom to court and prove00:00:48
that she was an unfit parent um and that00:00:52
um you know I was doing fine in Foster00:00:54
hair um and um I was also old enough um00:00:58
I was um 16 whenever I did it and they00:01:01
looked at my mom's background my mom had00:01:02
been in prison for educational neglect00:01:05
and then she had also not had us for 800:01:07
and 1/2 years I had to prove that my mom00:01:09
you know was not the person you know00:01:11
that should be in my life and I sure did00:01:13
so with no real parent to care for her00:01:16
juvenile court has become a way of life00:01:18
for Delina a surreal second home where00:01:21
decisions that dictate a child's future00:01:24
become a safety net from a lifetime of00:01:26
abuse having lived in more than 1500:01:28
foster homes since first becoming a ward00:01:31
of the state Delina is back before judge00:01:34
Talia faroh for this six-month review00:01:36
hearing let's go on the record please in00:01:38
the matter of Delina this matter is set00:01:40
today for a review hearing who's with00:01:43
you Delina my foster mother Kathy Brown00:01:45
Delina was 14 when she got pregnant with00:01:48
her son Gavin and both remain Wards of00:01:51
the Court shortly after his birth Delina00:01:54
went to live with foster mom Kathy Brown00:01:57
the three have been a family ever since00:01:59
so has the baby he's great he is so00:02:02
smart he's 2 and a half and actually00:02:05
have a picture I'd love to see it well I00:02:08
guess your foster mother's not proud of00:02:09
him is that right not at all not at all00:02:12
is that right oh that's wonderful he's00:02:14
he's adorable thank you Jena you've done00:02:16
very well in foster care there's not00:02:18
been one problem since you've been00:02:19
placed in foster care not one but take00:02:22
care of yourself see you in about 600:02:25
months she's done such a great job yes00:02:27
she do she really has so so proud of her00:02:31
she wants to be independent she's scared00:02:33
to death of being00:02:34
independent um she thinks she can take00:02:37
care of herself she's pretty sure she00:02:38
can't take care of herself and Gavin00:02:39
alone right now um I hope she00:02:43
knows um and we've talked about this00:02:45
they can live with me as long as they00:02:46
want Delina is a senior in high school00:02:49
and thriving both academically and at00:02:51
home everyone involved in her case00:02:54
admits Delina is more than just a00:02:55
successful foster child she's an00:02:58
extraordinary teen who has never been in00:03:00
trouble with a law and has refused to00:03:03
let a lifetime in the child welfare00:03:05
system destroy her dreams with a judge00:03:08
rooting for her and a supportive foster00:03:11
mom everything seems to be on track for00:03:13
Delina as her 18th birthday00:03:16
approaches if only it could have stayed00:03:19
this00:03:23
way I'm really ashamed of myself she00:03:26
took me as a teenager with my son took00:03:29
me into her house and then in a way I I00:03:32
betrayed00:03:34
her when we see Delina again just a few00:03:37
months later her life has crumbled00:03:39
around her for reasons even she can't00:03:42
explain Delina stole two checks from00:03:44
foster mom Kathy Brown then ran away00:03:47
from home after a week on the Run00:03:50
missing her son Gavin was too much to00:03:52
bear and so I called be I said I can't00:03:57
do this anymore I need to see him00:04:01
I took myself to the shelter and then I00:04:03
lost him and I haven't seen him I didn't00:04:06
get to see him for weeks for weeks and00:04:09
that was00:04:10
just and then the first time I saw him00:04:12
the first thing he said to me was mommy00:04:14
are you sad and I just I could not00:04:17
believe it I mean just how much him and00:04:20
I had been together he just he knew he00:04:23
could feel it Delina now lives in yet00:04:25
another new foster home while she awaits00:04:28
her trial on theft and for forgery00:04:30
charges she is allowed to see Gavin only00:04:32
twice a week and those visits are00:04:34
supervised by a social00:04:37
worker Gavin continues to live with00:04:39
foster mom Kathy Brown as Delina awaits00:04:46
trial as the weeks pass Delina knows her00:04:49
fate lies in one person's hands and even00:04:53
judge Talia faroh admits this is one00:04:55
court date she never expected well I00:04:58
hate to say that I was disappointed it00:04:59
because that's not fair to Delena00:05:02
because obviously this is delena's00:05:05
struggle it's surprising but we00:05:08
shouldn't be so surprised because after00:05:10
all it has to be frightening for a young00:05:14
person almost 18 years of age uh Without00:05:17
A solid family without family support00:05:20
the things that many of us take for00:05:22
granted Delina is on trial for forging00:05:25
two of Kathy Brown's checks totaling00:05:27
almost00:05:28
$400 on the record please this is Deputy00:05:31
prosecuting attorney Brett Raper tries00:05:33
to get to the bottom of why a model00:05:35
foster child like Delina would risk00:05:38
everything for a random friend who said00:05:40
he needed the money what were you going00:05:42
to do with the money that you received00:05:44
from these items I was going to give it00:05:47
to a00:05:49
person that I liked that wanted it next00:05:53
on the stand is delina's child welfare00:05:55
case manager Michelle Fields like judge00:05:58
Talia farell Michelle has been one of00:06:00
delina's biggest supporters during her00:06:02
12 years in the system she was00:06:05
considered the star child you know one00:06:07
of the kids on our case load that you00:06:12
talk highly about that you say I wish I00:06:16
had more kids like Delina um she was out00:06:20
speaking to other teenagers about um not00:06:24
getting pregnant at a young age and why00:06:26
you shouldn't do that but not even00:06:28
Michelle find an excuse for delina's00:06:31
current mess one of the recommendations00:06:33
is that Delina go to secure detention uh00:06:36
today for five days of the 30 possible00:06:40
days any concerns about00:06:43
that I don't think she understands that00:06:47
if she were an adult 5 days would be a00:06:50
miracle in addition she has a child to00:06:54
which this is negatively affecting and00:06:57
the woman who gave toena the first real00:06:59
home she's ever known tells the court00:07:01
she supports a tough love approach I00:07:04
agree with the recommendations Delina00:07:07
also said to me Kathy I never meant to00:07:10
hurt you I didn't think you'd find00:07:15
out this did hurt you very much though00:07:18
didn't it it it's been00:07:20
devastating I told Delina in the first00:07:22
time we ever met when she said I just00:07:26
want a place to live where I'm wanted I00:07:29
want to be part of a family I said00:07:32
that's what I want I want a a family00:07:36
I've been saving for her00:07:39
College I didn't know what else to do00:07:43
when I found out she forged the00:07:45
checks then to to press criminal00:07:50
charges I wanted to be delina's mother00:07:54
and Gavin's00:07:56
grandmother I I want her to accept some00:08:00
responsibility Delena could you look at00:08:02
me for what she's done to00:08:08
me and from her own heart make some00:08:13
amends as opposed to people telling her00:08:15
what she has to do as Delina cries from00:08:19
her seat in the courtroom it will be00:08:21
judge Talia faroh and judge Talia00:08:23
Pharaoh alone who will decide delina's00:08:26
fate but before she makes her decision00:08:28
Delina will get one last chance to00:08:30
convince the judge she shouldn't be00:08:32
locked up for her offense at this time00:08:35
then Mr Chon I will permit Delena to say00:08:39
whatever it is that she would like to00:08:41
say and then I will render my decision00:08:45
coming up judge Talia phoh seals00:08:48
delina's fate00:08:51
youo00:08:53
you and new beginnings and Old Wounds00:08:56
how this teenage mom surprises every00:08:59
everyone with her wrenching decision00:09:01
there's not a day that goes by that I00:09:03
don't think about it and a fight at home00:09:07
leads to the unthinkable for this00:09:09
teenage boy and his mom I don't know00:09:12
what's next we um filled out the00:09:14
paperwork and it's like I was signing00:09:16
his life away because they you know00:09:18
they're asking for all his information00:09:20
you know his birth00:09:22
certificate so it's like I'm giving him00:09:25
away00:09:28
but00:09:29
and a young girl struggles to break free00:09:32
from a life of shackles and00:09:35
[Music]00:09:49
[Music]00:09:52
medications Joshua went after a sister00:09:55
with a pair of scissors I didn't see it00:09:58
she came out of the bathroom from00:10:01
[Applause]00:10:05
screaming it's a warm fall morning in00:10:07
this community just outside Chicago as00:10:10
another long day begins for juvenile00:10:13
judge Mary Beth00:10:14
bonaventura the judge a 22-year veteran00:10:17
of child welfare Court watches as00:10:20
13-year-old Joshua enters her courtroom00:10:23
where the testimony you're about to give00:10:24
to be the truth the whole truth Joshua00:10:26
is here today after a weekend of00:10:28
violence at home home but this fresh00:10:30
face seventh grader isn't the victim00:10:33
he's accused of being the perpetrator00:10:35
all right we're here today for uh a00:10:37
charge of battery and that happened in00:10:39
your home is that right ma'am yes do you00:10:41
want to tell the court what happened00:10:42
Joshua went after a sister with the pair00:10:45
of scissors I didn't see it she came out00:10:47
of the bathroom screaming and I told him00:10:49
to go to his room and he didn't want to00:10:51
he threw stuff at me and then he walked00:10:54
out of his room when I walked out00:10:56
followed me and then he punched me in00:10:58
the face with the fist um he split my00:11:01
lip and made my head go back against the00:11:04
wall then he choked me then he spit on00:11:07
me and I told my daughter to call 911 is00:11:10
this the first time something like this00:11:12
has happened to this extent where he00:11:14
punched me yeah are you afraid of Joshua00:11:18
yes do you want him to come back into00:11:20
your home00:11:22
no so at this time you don't want to00:11:24
take him home with you no I I don't know00:11:26
what else to do with him I have you had00:11:27
him any counseling00:11:29
he been in counseling since he was in00:11:31
third grade like so many kids who end up00:11:33
in front of Judge bonaventura Joshua has00:11:36
been in and out of trouble for years but00:11:39
this is the first time his behavior has00:11:41
landed him in juvenile court you will00:11:43
see the experience will leave his whole00:11:45
family overwhelmed and confused he's00:11:48
been in a juvenile detention center for00:11:50
4 days waiting for this hearing and00:11:53
today he's about to find out his latest00:11:55
Outburst has cost him a huge price his00:11:59
his home because his mother says she can00:12:01
no longer deal with him the judge almost00:12:03
has no choice in her course of action00:12:06
and in front of our cameras this boy who00:12:09
came into court a juvenile delinquent00:12:11
still under his parents' care leaves a00:12:14
ward of the state in legal terms Joshua00:12:17
is now a child in need of services today00:12:20
the court will find probable cause to00:12:21
believe this child has committed a00:12:22
delinquent Act refer the matter to the00:12:24
prosecutor's office to file a petition00:12:26
the court will order that the child also00:12:28
today be made a temporary War of the00:12:29
division of family and children and00:12:31
order that he undergo a psychological00:12:33
evaluation and I will order that the00:12:34
division of family and children find00:12:36
placement for him Joshua do you have any00:12:38
questions no ma'am all right thank you00:12:42
as the Bale leads Joshua out of court00:12:45
it's up to his mom and stepdad to make00:12:47
it official they sign the papers00:12:49
temporarily giving their son over to the00:12:51
custody of the state I wanted to say no00:12:54
I want to take him home you know he's my00:12:56
son I I need him at home but I also knew00:12:59
that I have to do the best thing to help00:13:02
him they're asking for all his00:13:05
information you know his birth00:13:07
certificate so it's like I'm giving him00:13:10
away he came out and he was just so00:13:13
angry and and so I mean yeah but I00:13:17
wanted to hug him I wanted to say Josh I00:13:18
love you you know it's not because I00:13:20
don't want you or because you're00:13:21
terrible but I don't know I just00:13:23
couldn't I had to make the point that00:13:25
Josh you really you stepped over the00:13:27
line you're here because you know you00:13:29
really went way over back inside Joshua00:13:33
tells our producer he sees things00:13:35
differently were you sad yeah cuz my mom00:13:39
said she didn't want me00:13:41
so do you think that that's really how00:13:44
she00:13:46
feels yeah I I I want to go live with my00:13:49
dad in00:13:51
Texas but I don't think they'll let me I00:13:54
only get to talk to him like twice a00:13:56
month cuz my mom doesn't like me talking00:13:58
to him I ask him if I could call him and00:14:00
she'll be like no no no most of the time00:14:03
I when she goes to work I just still00:14:05
call him if you can have a perfect00:14:07
situation right now what would it be my00:14:09
mom will be standing right here and I00:14:10
tell her I was sorry and asked her if00:14:12
she' forgive me and then I just tell her00:14:15
that I want to live with my dad cuz it'd00:14:17
be better for both of us his mom says00:14:19
she and Josh's dad divorced when he was00:14:21
a toddler by the time he was in grade00:14:24
school fits of anger became the norm but00:14:27
no one in the family SU expected things00:14:29
would ever get this bad Josh now finds00:14:32
himself caught up in the juvenile00:14:34
justice system and he and his family00:14:36
will soon learn it takes time lots of it00:14:39
to be free of that system now you know00:14:42
why I shot these right this is in case00:14:43
you guys run away cuz if you run away00:14:46
I'm going to give this to the police00:14:47
department I'm going to give it to every00:14:48
Police Department in the state of00:14:50
Indiana to find you I would have00:14:52
preferred to work with Joshua in the00:14:54
home with the parents and some intensive00:14:56
counseling maybe Joshua on probation a00:14:58
probation officer going to the school00:15:00
going to the home monitoring his00:15:01
behavior U maybe doing some parenting00:15:04
classes and some parenting skills in the00:15:06
home with the other children that00:15:08
opportunity wasn't there so what I can00:15:10
only hope for now is that through00:15:13
therapy and Joshua may be growing up a00:15:14
little bit on his own maybe some00:15:16
separation maybe she'll miss him and00:15:18
want to work harder on it that we can00:15:20
reunite them because as I told her in00:15:21
court as much as we like Joshua it's00:15:24
still her child and the law says that we00:15:26
have to reunite families and hopefully00:15:28
we can work toward that I mean the00:15:30
verbal abuse is one thing but you know00:15:32
and I told him if he wants to hit me hit00:15:33
me I'm 64 240 lbs knock yourself out you00:15:36
know we bought him a punching bag so we00:15:38
get punched that when he got angry you00:15:40
know it's not like we as parents haven't00:15:42
tried everything that he's been in the00:15:43
rainbow program he's been in Banana00:15:45
Splits we've been to family therapy he's00:15:47
been in individual therapy he's on00:15:49
medication to try to control his um00:15:51
anxiety it's to the point where he has00:15:53
to understand that he's responsible for00:15:55
his actions and I think that's what his00:15:56
problem is he doesn't understand that he00:15:57
is responsible for his actions now 400:16:00
days after beating up his mom Joshua00:16:02
faces the consequences he has no idea00:16:05
where he's headed or for how long cuz00:16:08
like I don't even know where I'm going00:16:10
or anything it's like they're just00:16:11
pulling me like my dog on a leash what00:16:15
should the state do to help a boy like00:16:17
Joshua as his parents now learn signing00:16:20
over your child to the custody of the00:16:22
state has enormous far-reaching00:16:25
consequences teams of counselors00:16:27
therapists casew workers and other00:16:29
Specialists will now decide where Joshua00:16:32
will live and for how long and in the00:16:34
next 2 weeks Josh's life will take a00:16:37
drastic00:16:39
turn coming up she grabbed a kitchen00:16:42
knife and threatened to stab her sister00:16:44
threatened to kill herself and then she00:16:47
took a coat hanger put it around her00:16:50
neck Joshua isn't the only teenager00:16:53
swept up in chaos in a quiet rural00:16:56
Indiana town we see pain tears and00:16:59
shackles that normally remain hidden00:17:01
behind closed00:17:27
doors00:17:30
she got into an argument with her sister00:17:33
and she asked me for a cigarette and I00:17:36
said no I said you don't need00:17:38
one well I'm going to kill myself for00:17:41
nearly 8 months 13-year-old Connie has00:17:44
been a patient at Meadows Hospital a00:17:46
facility that specializes in behavioral00:17:48
health problems her mom tells us the00:17:51
story of how Connie became a ward of the00:17:53
court and why the state had to take00:17:56
control when she no longer could00:17:58
she took off in my room don't know how00:18:01
much or what quantity of pills she did00:18:05
take she grabbed a kitchen00:18:07
knife um threatened to stab her sister00:18:10
threatened to kill herself stab00:18:12
herself well we fought the kitchen knife00:18:15
off of her got00:18:17
that and then she took a coat00:18:21
hanger put it around her neck and at00:18:25
that point I had seen her eyes and I00:18:28
knew that she took quite a bit whatever00:18:32
she did and she didn't have a whole lot00:18:35
of time the past eight months at Meadows00:18:37
Hospital have been a hellish ride for00:18:39
Connie she's in court today on a battery00:18:42
charge accused of assaulting staff at00:18:45
Meadows Hospital proceed is as follow Mr00:18:47
rap Connie's case is a complicated one a00:18:50
young teenager with severe emotional00:18:52
problems violent outbursts and a family00:18:55
in turmoil the judge must decide today00:18:58
what whether to keep Connie at Meadows00:18:59
hospital or send her to secure detention00:19:02
if there's probable cause to believe she00:19:04
beat up staff at Meadows and just in the00:19:07
past few days there's a new incident to00:19:10
deal with um she was asked I believe to00:19:13
um take a time out she refused to do00:19:15
that went to her bedroom um was given an00:19:18
opportunity to come out on her own00:19:20
refused to do that did subsequently come00:19:22
out and in the process shoved the staff00:19:24
into the wall um she was taken down and00:19:27
during that process um spit and kicked00:19:31
tried to scratch and we just became00:19:33
highly aggressive in that process of00:19:35
just trying to get her to the quiet room00:19:37
is she under a medication Connie's00:19:39
therapist proceeds to run through a00:19:40
Litany of drugs Celexa for depression00:19:44
depote for aggression and mood00:19:46
stabilization zpra for impulsivity and00:19:51
triazone at night to help her sleep00:19:54
every individual has to accept00:19:57
responsibility for him or herself and00:20:00
and we I don't expect any more of these00:20:02
young people who come into court than00:20:03
they are capable of doing nearly an hour00:20:06
goes by as witness after witness tells00:20:08
judge Talia faroh that Connie's Behavior00:20:11
at Meadows hospital is out of control00:20:14
Connie's placement coordinator accuses00:20:16
Connie of 20 assaults against00:20:19
supervisors staff members and other00:20:21
peers I think medis has done the best00:20:23
that they can with um Connie's Behavior00:20:27
I think she needs to suffer some00:20:28
consequences at this point in time and00:20:30
probably should have suffered some00:20:31
consequences a long time ago so I do00:20:33
think secure detention would be an00:20:34
appropriate placement for at this point00:20:36
in time with no jury to guide her judge00:20:39
Talia faroh must quickly determine00:20:41
what's best for Connie Court testimony00:20:43
alone will not sway the judge she's00:20:46
known for her compassion but but I can00:20:49
also be very00:20:53
firm and very00:20:55
direct if we do any00:20:58
thing for the people who come into our00:21:00
court the families uh that are in00:21:03
disarray we should be trying to empower00:21:06
them so we have no reason to feel sorry00:21:09
for them or to pity00:21:11
them because they're not pitiful people00:21:15
they're people whose lives are in00:21:17
distress still there's even more00:21:19
disturbing information the judge must00:21:21
take into consideration Connie isn't the00:21:23
only child in her family to come through00:21:25
the child welfare system her brother00:21:28
Jeffrey is in foster care for what his00:21:31
mom calls behavioral problems Connie's00:21:34
sister Samantha was a runaway at 14 and00:21:37
now nervously Waits at home while Connie00:21:39
sits in a courtroom just miles away00:21:42
Samantha says it's hard to watch her00:21:44
family's self-destruct I say it's pretty00:21:47
bad being locked up and not getting able00:21:49
to see her mom and dad every single day00:21:51
and to see your brothers and sister get00:21:53
locked up when I for see my little00:21:55
brother get locked up I mean it was hard00:21:56
on me too I know it was hard on him00:21:58
but right now the focus is on Connie her00:22:01
court hearing has been emotionally00:22:03
draining after 8 months in the hospital00:22:06
has Connie had her last chance Connie00:22:10
you need to control yourself will the00:22:13
judge spare Connie time insecure00:22:15
detention or is she destined to be00:22:17
behind00:22:19
bars next an Angry Dad lashes out of the00:22:23
judge who controls whether or not he can00:22:25
see his son saying that I can never see00:22:27
my son again cuz00:22:28
just and how life can change00:22:31
dramatically in the years to00:22:54
come I wasn't chasing her I wasn't00:22:56
stalking she is proven me to be the00:22:58
crazy00:23:04
one I don't have any control over that00:23:06
but if you get found guilty what's going00:23:07
to happen to you so you're saying that I00:23:09
can never see my son again because of00:23:10
this bull sir you say that again and you00:23:14
won't see him that's right well that's00:23:16
not fair for me not see any I didn't00:23:17
even point a damn gun at you're not00:23:18
going to see him right now until I00:23:20
decide do you00:23:25
understand that's a yes no question one00:23:28
Court man this is crazy stuff man for00:23:30
more than seven years we've been00:23:31
tracking children and their families00:23:33
swept up in America's child welfare00:23:35
system they are among hundreds of00:23:38
thousands of atrisk kids who land in the00:23:40
courts every year sometimes they're00:23:43
hauled before a judge for their00:23:45
despicable Behavior but too often it's00:23:47
because home is no longer a safe place00:23:50
that's the case with this 2-year-old00:23:53
whose parents call him baby Raymond he's00:23:55
caught in the middle of their violent00:23:57
Feud00:23:58
their battle is about to play out in00:24:00
front of Indianapolis Juvenile Judge00:24:02
James Payne the point is there any00:24:04
reason for you to be around her no any00:24:07
reason for you to be around the children00:24:08
if I tell you you can't until I get all00:24:10
these reports00:24:13
done the baby's father Raymond Cruz came00:24:17
to this hearing today from the Maran00:24:19
County Jail where he's awaiting trial00:24:21
for allegedly stalking the baby's mother00:24:23
Dana and taking off with baby Raymond00:24:26
and what's going to happen if you go00:24:27
around or contact letter phone or00:24:30
anything what's going to00:24:31
happen go back to jail I don't want that00:24:34
you understand if you go around her try00:24:36
to contact her or the children you'll go00:24:39
to jail probably prison probably for a00:24:42
long time and your father will lose his00:24:43
house is that what you00:24:45
want but in fact Raymond's criminal case00:24:47
is of little concern to judge Payne00:24:50
whose focus is on what's best for the00:24:52
child that's why Dana doesn't even have00:24:55
custody of baby Raymond he and his half00:24:57
sister are staying with Dana's parents00:25:00
and she only gets limited visitation the00:25:03
judge isn't taking any chances that00:25:04
Raymond will get out of jail at any00:25:06
point and go looking to harm his00:25:08
girlfriend or the kids so how long is it00:25:10
going to be no that guy can't see till I00:25:12
get these reports on everything and tell00:25:15
your criminal case is over hold it what00:25:17
you're saying is that she is proven me00:25:19
to be the crazy one I'm saying I'm00:25:21
worried about these children I don't00:25:22
care about you two at all you know you00:25:25
understand that I don't care whether you00:25:27
stay in jail or get out of jail I don't00:25:29
care whether she goes somewhere or she00:25:30
does anything I don't care I care about00:25:32
these two children I'm not going to let00:25:35
these children be put at risk yeah and00:25:37
because of his actions Raymond risked00:25:39
not seeing his son for a long time he's00:25:42
facing 10 years in prison I'll tell you00:25:44
one this court man this is crazy stuff00:25:47
man because her family got me look like00:25:49
I'm a damn nutcase that's the reason why00:25:51
I'm here00:25:52
today I wasn't stalking her I'm in a00:25:54
damn criminal court with a mean ass00:25:56
judge don't really give it give a damn00:25:59
we'll have you back here on the 28th of00:26:00
July to find out what happens and then00:26:02
we'll talk about then whether or not she00:26:03
can visit so if I get found guilty00:26:05
you're going to say well you're going to00:26:06
take my visitation because he said I00:26:08
stopped her how the can you stop ask so00:26:12
the next time you use f language here00:26:14
I'll remove you right now and then you00:26:16
won't find out what's going to happen do00:26:17
you understand how can you stop do you00:26:19
understand that sir yeah I can00:26:20
understand that but how can you tell as00:26:21
the hearing ends Dana is frustrated that00:26:23
this day in court doesn't end with her00:26:25
getting her kids back then I'm one do00:26:27
spend time with my son when I get out00:26:30
and that's what I want man I don't want00:26:31
nothing to do with Dana but Raymond's00:26:33
mood quickly turns and it's not only00:26:35
Dana he has in his sights yeah I don't00:26:38
like him period I never did like00:26:41
him my opinion is I think he's a crummy00:26:44
mother judge and I'll tell him that00:26:45
straight up to his face tomorrow after00:26:47
14 years in juvenile court judge Payne00:26:50
has learned to block out the insults00:26:52
when he leaves his quarter room at night00:26:54
he tries to go home with a clear00:26:56
conscience but there are no juries in00:26:58
juvenile courtt all decisions rest with00:27:00
a judge and so often their safety is an00:27:04
issue I think I think a lot of Judges00:27:06
suffer through that and that is the00:27:08
decisions we make are pretty convicting00:27:10
for families for parents for individuals00:27:13
I like I suspect many judges have lived00:27:15
under the the threat of someone harming00:27:17
me um I've had police security and00:27:19
others like many judges have uh this00:27:21
business of dealing with people's lives00:27:23
has tremendous rewards in seeing people00:27:26
change their lives and posit things00:27:28
happen and his has some negatives like00:27:29
having your life threatened it's just00:27:31
part of the business while it's obvious00:27:33
Raymond's temper clearly got the best of00:27:35
him in court no one knows for certain00:27:37
how he'll react if he's convicted in his00:27:40
criminal case and lose his visitation00:27:42
with baby Raymond I know where she00:27:45
works you know I know where she I know00:27:47
where she's at she can't run and she00:27:48
can't hide can Raymond cope or will he00:27:52
ultimately blow his chances for seeing00:27:54
his son00:27:56
again coming up up years in prison at a00:27:59
little boy with no real place to call00:28:01
home the shocking revelations of this00:28:03
angry dad and his00:28:09
[Music]00:28:26
son00:28:37
[Applause]00:28:41
cheese if uh chelia could be in the same00:28:45
Community with her mother because her00:28:46
mother and stepfather had such a00:28:48
wonderful close relationship with yeah00:28:50
I'm concerned about the way she gets00:28:53
treated up at Metals I know she gets out00:28:55
of control child welfare Court rural00:28:58
Bloomington Indiana judge Viola talifero00:29:02
faces a stack of cases this morning and00:29:05
this one will prove to be one of her00:29:06
most00:29:08
difficult Linda is a lowincome mother of00:29:11
three and is in court because of her00:29:13
9-year-old daughter Chelsea Chelsea has00:29:15
been diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant00:29:18
Disorder attention deficit disorder and00:29:21
is mildly Mally [ __ ] State's00:29:24
attorney Steve Galvin tells the court00:29:26
that Linda can no longer cope Linda00:29:29
agrees and in fact has asked for the00:29:32
intervention of the office of family and00:29:34
children in this matter is that correct00:29:35
that's correct she's trying her best is00:29:38
that correct yes she is but there are00:29:40
times when a parent's best just isn't00:29:43
enough today Linda does something most00:29:46
parents can't imagine even on their00:29:47
child's worst day she asked the court to00:29:51
take her daughter away you've00:29:54
really put forth that00:29:58
well I don't have the word to describe00:30:00
the effort that you've put forth to keep00:30:02
your daughter at home with you00:30:05
[Applause]00:30:07
yeah on a bad day that um you know like00:30:11
if her mind's made up to words she don't00:30:13
want to do nothing you have to struggle00:30:15
with her argue fight her she's you know00:30:18
like if I have to restrain her she's00:30:20
throwing me around in my living room you00:30:23
know picking up boards hit me in the00:30:25
head these cases present enormous00:30:28
problems for parents because the the00:30:31
cost of caring for them is just00:30:32
overwhelming and many many uh most00:30:35
people cannot afford to pay for the care00:30:38
of these children and they're not enough00:30:40
facilities for them so you have parents00:30:43
uh such as Chelsea's mother who will try00:30:47
every00:30:48
way that can be tried to keep the child00:30:51
at home but if the child is unmanageable00:30:54
uh it cannot be done tried to maintain00:30:57
her for 9 and 1/2 years and I can't do00:30:59
it no00:31:01
more and I'm just hoping that they can00:31:04
keep her here in bloomon at the stone00:31:05
belt where I can see her more00:31:07
often Linda is asking the court to00:31:10
temporarily Place her daughter in a00:31:12
facility close to home attorney Galvin00:31:15
knows another place dayar might be00:31:18
better for Chelsea's many needs but it's00:31:20
nearly an hour away I think also we00:31:23
we've been discussing being able to tr00:31:25
to uh to transition her into dayar if00:31:28
possible that's a little bit further00:31:30
away Lindy were you aware of that uh00:31:32
yeah and then um I was just wondering00:31:36
like if um you know the state or00:31:38
someone's going to pay for the dayar00:31:41
dayar is an established private facility00:31:43
in Indiana serving children with00:31:45
developmental disabilities but there's00:31:48
usually a waiting list last year alone00:31:51
we had over 160 kids referred to our00:31:55
organization that needed help a lot of00:31:57
help that we weren't able to help00:31:59
because we didn't have the capacity we00:32:01
no longer uh get the kids refer to us00:32:04
that we having mild or even moderate uh00:32:07
problems these are really really00:32:09
intensely troubled00:32:12
kids a month passes while Linda and00:32:15
Chelsea wait for word on where Chelsea00:32:17
will be placed I furthered that Chelsea00:32:20
should be transferred to dayar when an00:32:23
opening becomes available and at dayar00:32:26
chelse here Will obtain the special care00:32:28
and treatment provided by dayar uh dayar00:32:31
of course is a long-term residential00:32:33
placement and will provide chelsia with00:32:35
the structure that she needs do you know00:32:37
very much about dayar yet uh-uh do you00:32:40
want to go up there before your daughter00:32:42
is transf I'd like to yeah Linda makes00:32:45
one visit to dayar before Chelsea moves00:32:48
in she's impressed with what she sees00:32:51
but still can't come to terms with the00:32:53
decision she's made I sit home every00:32:56
night thinking you know did I do the00:32:58
right thing I mean I know I've got to be00:33:00
doing the right thing because I mean I00:33:02
can't give her the special needs that00:33:04
she needs to maintain out here in the00:33:08
world and stuff and I mean but I just00:33:10
still beat myself up thinking am I just00:33:14
giving her up or what00:33:17
but but I want to do the right00:33:22
thing what we see on a day-to-day basis00:33:25
is more akin to an emergency room00:33:29
atmosphere uh than uh it is a regular00:33:33
courtroom situation and uh for the judge00:33:37
when she comes into this courtroom every00:33:39
day she knows what she's going to hear00:33:42
and you have to deal with that not just00:33:43
on Tuesday but next Tuesday and the next00:33:47
Tuesday after that and the week after00:33:49
that it's called children in need of00:33:50
services for a reason obviously I00:33:55
cannot uh00:33:57
singlehandedly make changes and some00:34:00
things are never going to be that much00:34:02
better but the question00:34:05
is can something be00:34:08
done and the other question00:34:10
is will I see that it00:34:14
happens I don't think I can do much more00:34:16
than that the judge knows doing00:34:19
something can also mean a heart-rending00:34:21
separation of child and parent and00:34:24
that's exactly what's in store for00:34:26
Chelsea and her mom in the months and00:34:28
the years00:34:33
ahead love00:34:36
[Music]00:34:55
you00:35:00
[Music]00:35:06
I just want everyone to know that's been00:35:09
involved in my case and that I know that00:35:10
I have been a00:35:12
disappointment and that I am very angry00:35:16
at00:35:18
myself and that I want to me a good00:35:22
person and I don't want to go through00:35:23
the court system like this I hate it00:35:27
[Applause]00:35:34
at this time then I will permit Delena00:35:38
to say whatever it is that she would00:35:39
like to say and then I will render my00:35:44
decision 17-year-old single mom Delina00:35:47
who has been in and out of foster homes00:35:49
for 13 years is facing the biggest00:35:52
challenge of her life her trial on theft00:35:55
and forgery charges Delina is in front00:35:57
of juvenile court judge Viola talifero00:36:00
after stealing checks from her foster00:36:02
mom of two years it's now time for her00:36:05
to explain to the judge and her friends00:36:07
in the courtroom how her years as a00:36:09
model foster child and teenage mother00:36:12
led to a day like today I just want00:36:16
everyone to know that's been involved in00:36:17
my case and that I know that I have been00:36:19
a00:36:20
disappointment and that I am very angry00:36:24
at00:36:25
myself and that I want to be a good00:36:30
person and I want to do good things and00:36:32
I want to00:36:34
succeed and I don't want to go through00:36:37
the court system like this I hate it so00:36:42
I I just do want everybody to know that00:36:45
regardless of if you don't think that I00:36:49
am remorseful I am and I am truly00:36:55
sorry00:36:57
that's all I want to00:37:01
say first of all the most important00:37:04
thing is what are the appropriate00:37:07
consequences for a young person who00:37:10
commits theft and00:37:13
forgery but what about the remorse she00:37:17
hasn't shown remorse Delena has had more00:37:21
than adequate time to make amends if she00:37:25
could is the a bad person I don't think00:37:28
so is her behavior unacceptable of00:37:32
course so what is appropriate will be00:37:36
four months of formal00:37:38
probation 30 days in a security00:37:41
detention00:37:43
facility participation in the victim00:37:45
offender reconciliation program and00:37:48
monetary restitution to be paid in full00:37:50
to Kathy00:37:51
Brown complete the youth education00:37:54
shoplifting program in order to00:37:56
understand understand the effects of00:37:58
stealing now I have not said exactly00:38:02
what the recommendations00:38:04
are I am going to send you to detention00:38:07
today for 5 days and I will suspend the00:38:12
2500:38:13
days so you will go now with Miss Kain00:38:18
out of this room out of this door and00:38:22
Elena I wish that I could have seen you00:38:25
walk out of the door door leading to the00:38:30
outside you OE you o Miss Brown an00:38:37
apology this is not the end of your life00:38:39
but your future Delena is in your hands00:38:44
Dela will you go with Miss Kane00:38:55
please00:39:00
High Pampa probation need to go from 300:39:02
to 200:39:07
[Music]00:39:12
please this is what I00:39:14
deserve I don't want to go but this is00:39:17
what I have to00:39:21
do to take your shoes off this is PM K00:39:25
can I have holding on second floor00:39:31
she wasn't here for all of the good00:39:33
she'd done in the past she was here00:39:36
because she committed two offenses her00:39:41
future is in her00:39:43
hands I do not know what that will be00:39:47
it's hard for me to untangle my hopes00:39:49
for her with my hopes for Gavin00:39:53
um I think I said in there my initial00:39:56
goal was to be a mother to Delena and a00:39:59
grandmother to Gavin I'm scared to death00:40:02
that if she gets Gavin back that I'll00:40:05
never see him00:40:06
again um and I I couldn't live with00:40:12
that the research does demonstrate very00:40:14
clearly uh that that there's a strong00:40:17
likelihood that a young person who's00:40:19
been in foster care for lengthy period00:40:21
of time May well end up in delinquency00:40:23
court so do I think about that yet00:40:27
but if you give them quote slack then00:40:30
are you sending a message to this young00:40:32
person that this kind of behavior is00:40:33
appropriate continue to do this no you00:40:36
say stop stop now make00:40:39
changes 5 days later Delina is released00:40:43
and begins weekly visits with Gavin who00:40:45
continues to live with00:40:48
Kathy But as time moves on Delina faces00:40:51
aging out of a system that has been her00:40:53
lifelong safety net by winter she is00:40:56
pregnant with her second child now 1800:40:59
and on her own she makes perhaps the00:41:01
most mature decision of her young life00:41:04
she voluntarily gives up her parental00:41:06
rights to Gavin and lets Kathy adopt her00:41:10
young son there's not a day that goes by00:41:12
that I00:41:13
don't think about it it's very hard but00:41:17
I know that Gavin is in a safe place it00:41:19
wasn't a decision that I wanted to make00:41:24
but unfortunately it was the decision that I00:41:27
had to make today at age 23 Delina00:41:31
refuses to feel sorry for herself she's00:41:34
still visits Gavin every week and has00:41:36
repaired her relationship with her00:41:37
former foster mom Kathy and I have a00:41:40
very good relationship um we've we've00:41:44
we've come a long way um Cathy's helped00:41:47
me out a lot um she's she's still done a00:41:49
lot for me than um anybody would do um00:41:53
under the circumstances and I'm very00:41:55
thankful you know to her Kathy and Gavin00:41:58
live just 20 minutes away from Delina00:42:01
despite the Goodwill between the two the00:42:03
wounds are still healing I mean there00:42:05
were periods of time when um after Gavin00:42:08
started calling me Mom there was a lot00:42:10
of tension but we've essentially agreed00:42:13
that we need to have a routine and that00:42:17
um once a week for couple hours is is00:42:20
good for00:42:25
Gavin00:42:27
there were great times and awful times00:42:29
with Delina when she was here and there00:42:31
have been that since she left and and00:42:34
since I've adopted Gavin um but for the00:42:38
most part it's been a00:42:40
um it's been a richer00:42:43
Life coming up one more twist in this00:42:46
young woman's complicated life story00:42:49
it's always corny when people say it but00:42:51
seriously never give up you have to00:42:53
continue on and if you don't love00:42:56
yourself and you can't love anybody else00:42:58
and can years in placement help a child00:43:01
like Chelsea or is she destined for a00:43:03
life in the00:43:05
system and the painful reality of loss00:43:08
Joshua's mom deals with the consequences00:43:10
of her decision to temporarily give her00:43:13
son over to the custody of the state I00:43:15
just want him to know how much he's00:43:18
loved even though we're not00:43:22
together five00:43:25
stories seven years in the00:43:28
making can you judge what will00:43:31
happen has the child welfare system done00:43:34
what's best for these00:43:37
[Music]00:43:55
kids00:43:58
[Music]00:44:08
[Music]00:44:18
[Music]00:44:38
Joshua went after his sister with a pair00:44:40
of scissors I didn't see it she came out00:44:42
of the bathroom00:44:45
[Applause]00:44:48
screaming he threw stuff at me and then00:44:51
he walked out of his room when I walked00:44:54
out followed me and then he he punched00:44:56
me in the face with the fist um he split00:44:59
my lip and made my head go back against00:45:02
the wall then he choked me then he spit00:45:05
on me and I told my daughter to call 91100:45:08
when we last Saw 13-year-old Joshua his00:45:10
mother was distraught he was confused00:45:13
Joshua's parents had just signed over00:45:15
custody of him to the state as Josh's00:45:18
mom and stepdad left the courthouse no00:45:20
one knew for certain where he was going00:45:22
or for how00:45:24
long by the time we see him again Joshua00:45:28
is a veteran at Alternative House a00:45:31
temporary placement facility for00:45:33
children in need it's like I miss my mom00:45:36
and my family but I don't miss them I00:45:41
miss them um but I know it's better for00:45:45
them it's like I'm sacrificing myself00:45:47
cuz I know it's better for them um it's00:45:50
like this is like a big waiting room I'm00:45:52
waiting to know where I should where I'm00:45:54
going and then why why do I think I00:45:57
should be in the place where I'm going00:45:59
it's00:46:00
because I'm going to get help there00:46:03
you're going to help me Joshua's been in00:46:06
a holding pattern at Alternative House00:46:08
for 30 days but this afternoon his life00:46:11
is about to take a radical turn after00:46:14
lunch Josh will be loaded into a car and00:46:17
transported back to juvenile court where00:46:19
he will face battery charges for hitting00:46:22
his mother well I pray00:46:24
that when go to court and I'll probably00:46:28
tell the judge where I want to go and I00:46:30
won't be shy to tell the judge and thank00:46:32
him for the food and that I could00:46:36
probably get out of here anytime soon00:46:38
she'll make the decision where I can00:46:39
make out get out of here anytime soon00:46:42
like the soon as00:46:45
time that is the fantasy of a naive00:46:47
young child who doesn't quite grasp that00:46:50
home is no longer an option and that his00:46:53
opinion doesn't count when it comes to00:46:55
figuring out what's best for him about00:46:59
uh 40 some per of our kids go from00:47:01
emergency shelter back home or to a00:47:04
family member uh but in Joshua's case00:47:06
that would not be a safe thing for00:47:09
everyone involved he needs a lot more00:47:11
supportive services and perhaps for an00:47:13
extended period of time sometimes Josh00:47:17
will have a perceived wrong oh so and so00:47:21
got in line before me or he stepped on00:47:23
my shoe in the lunch line or whatever00:47:25
and all of a sudden he's ready to cut00:47:26
loose with profanities that you wouldn't00:47:29
expect out of this sweet little face and00:47:32
he can go from Z to 65 just like that00:47:35
he's his motor is running all the00:47:39
time some00:47:41
cars I just hope I get to go to a00:47:45
placement CU they told me I might be00:47:47
going to the Ark in Wisconsin and then00:47:49
they told me I'd be going to Cornerstone00:47:51
and I'm hoping I go to Cornerstone cuz I00:47:53
don't know nothing about the ark the00:47:55
place Joshua will call home for the next00:47:57
6 to 12 months is likely either the ark00:48:00
located several hours away in Wisconsin00:48:03
or Cornerstone which is close by Joshua00:48:06
has no idea where the judge will send00:48:09
[Music]00:48:12
him wherewe the testimony that you're00:48:14
about to give it be the truth the whole00:48:16
truth nothing but the truth to help you00:48:18
God I please be00:48:20
seated this is the matter of Joshua00:48:23
Cordell cause number J 99 as his battery00:48:27
hearing gets underway Joshua has one00:48:29
shot to plead his case to the judge said00:48:33
child did knowingly or intentionally in00:48:35
a rude insolent or angry manner touch00:48:38
Angelita uh which resulted in bodily00:48:40
injury you are charged with battery do00:48:42
you admit or deny that I admit you admit00:48:45
what did you hear I don't00:48:50
really in the face on the arm in the00:48:53
face but it was a open from fist wasn't00:48:56
closed okay so then you went outside and00:49:00
then the police00:49:01
came the hearing continues with Joshua's00:49:04
case manager explaining that both00:49:06
Cornerstone and the Ark have accepted00:49:08
Joshua for placement one facility has00:49:11
been recommended over the other the case00:49:14
manager reports it has more kids Josh's00:49:16
age and can provide the Intensive00:49:19
counseling he and his family need00:49:21
Joshua's Mom isn't so00:49:23
sure we're not familiar with either00:49:26
program and we know that family therapy00:49:29
with Joshua is something that's we00:49:31
really need that and I don't know how00:49:34
easy it would be to do that if he's00:49:35
placed farther away from home than you00:49:38
know the Cornerstone I guess my ultimate00:49:40
goal would be to look at a person's00:49:43
family situation as objectively as I can00:49:46
and hopefully I've been given enough00:49:47
information um good and bad uh so I can00:49:50
assess the situation so that I can00:49:52
direct them in the areas that they need00:49:54
to be directed to to get their lives00:49:56
back together and hopefully that I can00:49:58
do that in a fair way uh and not going00:50:00
with any preconceived ideas which is00:50:02
very difficult in this position because00:50:05
as a judge that's what you do you judge00:50:07
with a case File of information in front00:50:09
of her with testimony from the therapist00:50:11
and counselors and family members the00:50:14
judge is ready to make her decision what00:50:16
I'll do today is um as I said make the00:50:18
child Award of the court order that he00:50:20
be placed at the ark with those words00:50:23
Joshua's hopes for help close to home00:50:25
are00:50:26
dashed Joshua do you have any questions00:50:29
honey no ma' okay well good luck to you00:50:32
outside the courtroom Joshua and his00:50:34
family get a chilling slap of reality00:50:37
the transportation has already been00:50:38
arranged and they need to speak with you00:50:41
okay so that they can give you00:50:42
directions and make sure all your00:50:44
questions are answered so we should take00:50:46
U like his winter coat and stuff like00:50:47
that there a lot of um winter Co cuz00:50:49
it's cold in Wisconsin or in the winter00:50:52
time other than that the Lake County00:50:53
division of family and children is dism00:50:55
missed and the probation department00:50:57
takes over from here I'll see you Josh00:50:59
tomorrow okay I'll bring you the video00:51:01
all right thank you so did you00:51:04
understand everything yeah you00:51:07
ready you understand it's not because we00:51:10
don't want you it's because you need to00:51:11
get some help so you can be a better00:51:15
person so you're not a00:51:18
statistic there anything you00:51:22
want you want your00:51:24
blankets you still picture00:51:28
no anything00:51:30
else no you00:51:32
sure why you so quiet it's nothing to00:51:37
say00:51:41
[Music]00:51:45
okay H is it okay there's nothing else00:51:48
to say I think cath's waiting for00:51:51
you bye love00:51:54
you00:51:55
so I don't get a hug h i don't get a hug00:51:58
he's not the true delinquent this is his00:52:00
first referral to the court and seldom00:52:02
do we place children on a first referral00:52:04
so when she said no I don't want him00:52:06
here I feel that if a parent says I00:52:08
don't want my child that's a red flag to00:52:10
[Music]00:52:13
me that was my my one biggest thing00:52:17
going into it was you know Joshua is00:52:19
just going to be so mad at me for00:52:21
sending him away you know how is he ever00:52:23
going to get over it I struggle with00:52:25
that and and hope that he sees you know00:52:27
that with enough attention and enough00:52:29
guidance then he'll be able to see why00:52:32
we as parents did what we did to help00:52:36
him I know Josh is still a part of the00:52:38
family and and we know that Josh is00:52:40
still you know here with us you know in00:52:43
spirit but he's away Joshua will remain00:52:48
at the ark for at least another 1000:52:51
months um I guess my wish would be that00:52:55
even though he's not with family and you00:52:59
know he's at the unit he realizes that00:53:02
you know we still love him I just want00:53:05
him to know how much he's loved even00:53:08
though we're not00:53:10
together that's00:53:13
all coming up it probably doesn't00:53:16
surprise me a lot that you haven't been00:53:17
able to find him Joshua's Journey00:53:19
Through the child welfare system and the00:53:21
surprising facts surrounding his case 700:53:24
years after first met him drug alcohol00:53:28
and an angry judge who expects some00:53:30
answers question and directed by the00:53:32
your behavior to get your wish by00:53:36
physically assaulting someone is a great00:53:38
concern to this00:53:40
court you did not learn very much at all00:53:43
from open00:53:54
Arts00:53:55
[Music]00:54:07
[Applause]00:54:11
all right we're ready for our 115 now I00:54:14
think meow has done the best that they00:54:16
can with um Connie's Behavior I think00:54:20
she needs to suffer some consequences at00:54:22
this point in time in con's troubles00:54:23
only got more complicated00:54:25
after she was sent to Meadows hospital00:54:27
for trying to assault her sister and her00:54:30
attempted suicide in her 8 months at00:54:33
Meadows a facility that specializes in00:54:35
behavioral health problems Connie racked00:54:38
up 20 reports of assault on the staff00:54:40
some and that's what brings her to court00:54:43
on this day so in my mind it it's very00:54:46
important if someone has committed an00:54:50
offense particularly an offense that00:54:51
would be a felony if committed by an00:54:54
adult00:54:55
that00:54:56
some some kind of consequence that rep00:55:00
that takes away or at least will give00:55:02
the child the young person an00:55:04
opportunity to think about it while the00:55:06
judge would normally send someone with a00:55:07
record of assault like Connie's directly00:55:09
to juvenile detention she's concerned00:55:12
the amount of medication Connie is on is00:55:14
what's affecting her behavior um she was00:55:17
asked I believe to um take before she00:55:20
makes a decision on where to send Connie00:55:22
back to Meadows or to secure detention00:55:25
here's one last piece of testimony from00:55:27
Connie's counselor I think me has done00:55:30
the best that they can with um Connie's00:55:33
Behavior I think she needs to suffer00:55:34
some consequences at this point in time00:55:36
and probably should have suffered some00:55:37
consequences a long time ago so I do00:55:40
think secure detention would be an00:55:41
appropriate placement for at this point00:55:43
in time she sabotaged the placement uh00:55:47
so that she could go home and she's a00:55:49
young person and she's not supposed to00:55:53
exercise the00:55:55
Judgment of a mature adult it's obvious00:55:58
that at this time Connie cannot remain00:56:00
at Meadows hospital it is appropriate00:56:03
that she be placed in the facility in00:56:07
vencen Indiana Connie00:56:10
you need to control yourself it's it's a00:56:13
challenging job but there are00:56:17
some Happy00:56:20
Endings these are people's lives these00:56:23
are situations they must be designed it00:56:26
how do I do it I don't know there are00:56:28
times when I ask myself how do I do it00:56:31
several months go by as Connie sits in00:56:33
Secure detention unlike her stay at00:56:36
Meadows Hospital Connie plays by the00:56:38
rules and quietly serves her time as her00:56:42
next court date rolls around her mom00:56:44
Becky is still worried the judge might00:56:47
not let Connie come home I hope she says00:56:50
Connie you get to go home I do know it's00:56:54
going to be tough she will be placed on00:56:56
very strict probation but I think home00:57:01
being with the people that she00:57:04
loves uh is what she00:57:23
needs00:57:34
let go on the record please in the00:57:35
matter of Connie the judge hears00:57:37
testimony on how Connie has fared and00:57:39
secure detention she now has to weigh00:57:42
the options of what to do next we would00:57:45
be asking that the court order Connie on00:57:48
probation for six months that would be00:57:51
supervised Miss Hamilton do you think00:57:53
that this is uh an appropriate00:57:55
recommendation for disposition I do your00:57:57
honor I've discussed this with Connie00:57:59
and I think she's very eager to go home00:58:01
and try to make it work Connie do you00:58:04
understand that you were in00:58:07
placement and you are out of placement00:58:10
because of your behavior because you00:58:12
committed a battery on a staff person00:58:15
yes and did you did you do this because00:58:18
you were hoping that you could get out00:58:19
of placement and go home yes so you00:58:23
intended to do this so so that you could00:58:25
get out of placement and go home is that00:58:27
right yes and you wanted to get the00:58:29
result that you have now and that's to00:58:31
go home is that00:58:36
right yes you pushed the staff person so00:58:39
that you could go00:58:43
home now you will be on00:58:46
probation and if you violate probation00:58:50
Connie then the consequences if you come00:58:53
back in this court again will will be00:58:54
more severe than they have been than00:58:56
they are this time and I am quite00:58:59
frankly disappointed your behavior to00:59:03
get your wish by physically assaulting00:59:06
someone is a great concern to this court00:59:09
you did not learn very much at00:59:12
all it is the decision the judge must00:59:16
make so the judge must weigh the00:59:22
facts the evidence the law00:59:25
and make a fair impartial decision00:59:29
that's the job I think that you owe the00:59:32
community some hours of work and public00:59:35
restitution will be 40 hours of00:59:38
community service done with a not00:59:39
for-profit institution so my job is to00:59:43
make a decision to make the decision00:59:46
that should be made and sometimes it may00:59:49
appear to be very00:59:51
harsh but that doesn't mean that I do it00:59:54
without without giving careful thought00:59:55
to it but it's important to maintain01:00:00
objectivity and not to become01:00:02
overwhelmed with uh sympathy and emotion01:00:08
and to make a decision that follows the01:00:12
law and reflects the facts of that case01:00:17
judge Talia farell reluctantly releases01:00:19
Connie to her mother based on the01:00:21
recommendation of the case workers and01:00:23
the attorneys but wonders what message01:00:26
this has sent can an explosive child be01:00:29
successful in an unstructured chaotic01:00:36
[Music]01:00:39
environment you be paying that much01:00:41
longer so right you I LIF up to my end01:00:45
of the01:00:47
deal see that's what you're going to01:00:49
live up to yours all01:00:51
right now comes the hard01:00:53
part you got to move back in with the01:00:55
sister and the brothers and mom go to01:00:59
school every01:01:02
day family therapy individual01:01:05
therapy Connie's success will ultimately01:01:07
depend on her family support at home a01:01:10
family we learn will not stay together01:01:13
for01:01:14
long coming up where Connie is today and01:01:18
what our long-term study of kids and the01:01:20
child welfare system tells us there01:01:23
aren't any mag W you know Cinderella the01:01:26
Fairy Godmother that was just a fairy01:01:28
[Applause]01:01:44
[Music]01:01:50
tale01:01:53
cheese01:01:57
[Applause]01:02:04
come come on no don't be showing no01:02:09
[Music] [Applause]01:02:16
[Music]01:02:18
tears hello come on in welcome will be01:02:22
here in just a minute 9-year-old Chelsea01:02:24
is about to make a heartbreaking01:02:26
transition for a young01:02:32
child moving an hour away from her01:02:34
parents into a residential treatment01:02:37
facility dear chances are Chelsea will01:02:40
live here for years I sit at home every01:02:44
night thinking you know did I do the01:02:46
right thing but I just still beat myself01:02:48
up thinking am I just giving her up or01:02:52
what01:02:53
but01:02:55
but I want to do the right01:02:56
thing why you doing the right after01:02:59
nearly 10 years of her daughter's01:03:00
uncontrollable Behavior Chelsea's01:03:03
desperate mom Linda has made a choice01:03:05
that once might have been Unthinkable01:03:08
she has signed over custody of her01:03:09
daughter to the state making way for01:03:12
juvenile court judge Viola Talia faroh01:03:14
to send Chelsea to dayar the dayar staff01:03:18
tries to prepare Chelsea for her01:03:20
move look how big that playground is big01:03:24
is01:03:25
or or go get on the swing men your swing01:03:27
but at just 9 years old she's completely01:03:33
[Music]01:03:34
overwhelmed some of them want to go home01:03:38
and they want to go home very badly uh01:03:41
children grieve when they leave their01:03:42
parents but that doesn't mean that they01:03:44
cannot be happy and adjust very well in01:03:49
another setting are you leaving well01:03:51
just a few01:03:53
minutes01:03:55
okay will you help01:03:58
me hey Lay Your Shoes in your01:04:01
closet I want to see if I can fit01:04:04
in I might be able to01:04:07
fit see hey Mom I01:04:11
can okay hey chelse come here come01:04:18
here you're going to have some fun up01:04:20
here01:04:23
right01:04:26
don't01:04:29
do you me01:04:35
cry visit and01:04:39
call I love01:04:49
you be okay you're de01:04:58
I want to go home I know you01:05:01
do I want you to go home too but you got01:05:05
to get01:05:06
better all right you got to keep you01:05:10
safe we'll still visit you we'll call01:05:14
you write your letters bring buy you01:05:17
things01:05:20
okay be01:05:23
right01:05:27
you need to tell Mom to see her later01:05:29
okay cuz she'll come visit you okay so01:05:33
come01:05:40
[Music]01:05:42
visit I love01:05:45
you love01:05:48
you don't do01:05:51
this cry01:05:54
[Music]01:05:57
do you want to go see our pants and01:05:58
stickers come on let's01:06:02
[Music]01:06:17
try we'll go for a visit another01:06:23
time01:06:26
[Music]01:06:35
[Music]01:06:40
coming up Chelsea's amazing01:06:42
transformation in her teenage years and01:06:45
how a lifetime in the system affects so01:06:47
many children well into01:06:53
adulthood01:07:12
[Music]01:07:19
I wasn't chasing I wasn't stalking she01:07:21
is proven me to be the crazy one01:07:25
[Applause]01:07:29
so you saying that I can never see my01:07:31
son again because of this bu behind the01:07:33
closed doors of America's child welfare01:07:35
courts lies a toxic mix of angry parents01:07:39
confused children and Powerful judges01:07:42
sir the next time you use file language01:07:43
here I'll remove you right now and then01:07:46
you won't find out what's going to01:07:47
happen do you understand how can you01:07:48
stop do you understand that sir Jail01:07:50
inmate Raymond Cruz is learning that the01:07:52
hard way when we last saw this angry dad01:07:55
he was in front of juvenile Judge James01:07:58
Payne because his son who he calls baby01:08:00
Raymond is a w of the Court considered a01:08:03
child in need of services Raymond is in01:08:06
jail on charges of stalking and fleeing01:08:09
from police even though he's now Behind01:08:11
Bars Raymond wants to see his young son01:08:14
during his last court hearing he was01:08:16
Furious his visitations had been halted01:08:19
that's not fair for me not see any I01:08:20
didn't even point a damn gun at nobody I01:08:22
wasn't stalking her in a damn criminal01:08:24
court but a mean ass judge don't really01:08:26
give a01:08:30
damn I should be going to prison01:08:32
following this court appearance Raymond01:08:34
returns to his jail cell where his01:08:36
emotions continue to boil over about01:08:38
Judge Payne and his girlfriend Dana01:08:41
guarantee like just P don't understand01:08:42
he's stupid cuz when the when that case01:08:45
is over she be back at the mom's house01:08:46
and I know where exactly she's at and01:08:48
she don't even be leaving B Raymond01:08:49
there because they're going to be stupid01:08:50
CU when I get out I'm coming to see01:08:52
him you know I got ways you know the01:08:56
same two months after his jailhouse tie01:08:59
raid Dana did exactly as Raymond01:09:01
predicted yeah now I uh moved back in at01:09:04
my mother's residence which is with the01:09:06
children and they're doing real good and01:09:09
uh real happy and I'm just really01:09:12
thankful I hope that Raymond really gets01:09:15
help and he's able to see the baby with01:09:18
no problem because I feel that him being01:09:21
his father is also important for the01:09:24
baby to see too you know they think01:09:26
right now they think in their book and01:09:27
judge pain think in his little sick mind01:09:29
that I'm doing a lot of time he can01:09:31
erase that cuz I'm going to tell him01:09:34
tomorrow I'm said I'm not doing a lot of01:09:36
time I said what are you going to do01:09:38
when I get out a year and a half 2 years01:09:40
or year you01:09:42
know you can't run man and like two01:09:45
years ain't going to be that bad cuz I01:09:46
won't be doing it here anyway Raymond's01:09:48
visions of beating his criminal charges01:09:51
come to a crashing halt when the01:09:53
criminal court s find him guilty of01:09:54
stalking and fleeing police he is01:09:58
sentenced to 5 years in prison one thing01:10:01
that all judges have to learn is how do01:10:02
you maintain a Judicial temperament that01:10:05
means I don't lose my temper at you even01:10:07
if you lose your temper at me and and to01:10:10
recognize finally that ultimately The01:10:12
Authority is in the court uh going off01:10:14
in court generally doesn't solve any01:10:16
problems that exist at any stage because01:10:19
the bottom line is I can find someone in01:10:20
contempt and lock them up that seems01:10:23
rather01:10:24
though with someone who's already in01:10:25
prison and virtually has nothing to lose01:10:28
so part of it is then just keeping your01:10:30
eye on the ball and the eye is and the01:10:32
ball is exactly what is going on with01:10:35
this child and if I lose my temper if I01:10:38
take umbrage if I get upset and and01:10:40
display that and get into a dialogue we01:10:43
lose sight of what's going on and that01:10:44
is what is the best interest of the01:10:48
child will there be a peaceful01:10:50
resolution in the case of Raymond and01:10:52
his son01:10:54
the odds are against it and seven years01:10:56
later the final outcome is even more01:10:59
astounding than you might01:11:01
expect tracking the long-term effects of01:11:03
the child welfare system on kids and01:11:06
families is never an exact science in01:11:08
the case of rayon Cruz 5 years in prison01:11:11
have changed a man and his family baby01:11:15
Raymond is no longer a baby he's a01:11:17
10-year-old boy and Raymond himself he's01:11:20
back home living with his dad and01:11:22
stepmother and helping to raise little01:11:25
Raymond yeah we can be friends but she01:11:27
Dad don't talk to her we can be friends01:11:28
she can come over and visit baby Raymond01:11:30
I don't really care I don't care like I01:11:32
said like I said I was in prison I01:11:33
worried about God and all that stuff my01:11:36
trial here and I want Daddy like her but01:11:40
Daddy don't like love people too01:11:42
much I don't know why baby Raymond was01:11:45
bounced from relatives to foster care01:11:48
during the time his dad was in prison in01:11:50
the end Dana signed custody papers01:11:53
allowing her young son to live with01:11:55
Raymond's parents Raymond's stepmom says01:11:58
the first few weeks with her grandson01:12:00
were tough Daren G because I still say01:12:03
that he has01:12:04
flashbacks because when we first got him01:12:07
he spilled something he jumped up and01:12:10
was running into the bathroom to find01:12:11
something to wash it wipe it up with and01:12:13
he was01:12:14
crying and there for a while he wouldn't01:12:17
let you touch his food or anything cuz01:12:19
he thought you taking it from him Dana01:12:22
does visit young r even though she no01:12:24
longer has custody the continued riff01:12:26
between Dana and Raymond still leaves01:12:28
their son with more questions than01:12:30
answers we try to answer his questions01:12:32
you know when he asks or anything and01:12:35
he's well I told him I no nobody's going01:12:38
to say anything bad about your mom or01:12:40
your dad that's just cuz they're your01:12:42
mom and01:12:44
dad and he's okay children will believe01:12:48
and remember 80% of what they see and01:12:51
20% of what they hear and that is01:12:54
particularly true in the ages of birth01:12:57
to about five by the time those kids get01:13:00
to our school system and then involved01:13:02
with other systems if things haven't01:13:04
gone well it's going to be difficult for01:13:06
the rest of us to fix those children01:13:08
earlier the better the best prevention01:13:12
the best treatment is good help early01:13:15
Raymond's parents admit he is on01:13:17
medication and having a tough time01:13:19
adjusting to life on the outside young01:13:22
Raymond is learning to disabled yet he01:13:24
can tell his dad is struggling yeah cuz01:13:27
um I love him I don't care if him sick I01:13:29
still love01:13:30
him I don't know why I don't know why01:13:34
Daddy loves somebody too01:13:37
much I don't know but what one01:13:39
generation tolerates the next will take01:13:41
to excess frankly if there were a01:13:43
formula if there were an absolute right01:13:45
way to do it we'd all be doing it at01:13:47
this point it is a problem because there01:13:49
is no single answer and it is doing the01:13:51
best job you can listening to everybody01:13:53
and then trying to make a good decision01:13:55
about that child our attempts to find01:13:58
young Raymond's mom Dana have been01:14:00
unsuccessful we wonder how she feels01:14:02
about Raymond's release from prison and01:14:04
The Limited contact she has with her son01:14:07
but we can't help but remember her word01:14:09
seven years ago when this whole ordeal01:14:11
began I know how to die01:14:17
911 coming up pain sacrifice and01:14:21
resilience how one teenage mom comes to01:14:24
terms with her life and makes good on01:14:26
her01:14:44
[Music]01:14:52
promise01:14:54
I knew this day was going to be coming01:14:55
now reality just set01:14:57
[Music]01:15:03
in the kids that that come to dayar have01:15:06
severe challenges Chelsea has come back01:15:08
and she has done even better in the01:15:10
program look01:15:13
at that's it 9-year-old Chelsea was a01:15:16
scared and distraught child when we met01:15:19
her several years ago the traumatic01:15:21
events of her life played out in front01:15:23
of us as a court placed her in a01:15:26
residential treatment facility dayar01:15:28
when her mother could no longer cope01:15:30
with her abusive01:15:34
Behavior want to go I know you01:15:38
did I want you01:15:43
to am right for 3 years Chelsey lived at01:15:47
dayar and made great strides in01:15:49
controlling her anger she was ready to01:15:52
move on and move home but couldn't01:15:55
because of her mother's own problems so01:15:58
instead Chelsea moved in with a foster01:16:00
family outside the structure of dayar01:16:02
Chelsea found it hard to cope just 1501:16:06
months after moving out of dayar Chelsea01:16:09
move back01:16:12
in I feel great but I just I just want01:16:17
to go home and everything I really want01:16:19
to live with my sister instead my mom01:16:21
cuz she's not doing so great is now01:16:23
living in a dayar transitional home and01:16:26
she's no longer the day's little girl01:16:28
clinging to her mother's side she is now01:16:31
a 15-year-old young woman going to dayar01:16:34
Proms and trying to be every bit the01:16:36
typical teenage girl Chelsea's mom Linda01:16:40
visits every week got01:16:45
this beautiful01:16:49
this just a skirt it's just a skirt01:16:55
this01:16:56
shirt of like mine and this outfit and01:17:00
the01:17:02
shoes dayar residential director Karen01:17:05
cowy says teaching Chelsea to live01:17:07
independently is key because ultimately01:17:10
she may never return home to her mom01:17:12
before she turns 18 this is a smaller01:17:15
more laid-back atmosphere um she only01:17:17
has two staff and she only lives with01:17:19
two other individuals so it allows her a01:17:21
more homelike environment where she can01:17:23
practice some of the skills that she's01:17:25
been taught no one can say for certain01:17:27
when or if Chelsea will return home kids01:17:30
at dayar can stay until their 22nd01:17:33
birthdays but most transition out at age01:17:36
18 according to the child Ware League of01:17:39
America approximately 25,000 young01:17:42
people age out of the system each year01:17:45
and many of those become homeless at01:17:47
some point when we ask Chelsea where she01:17:50
sees herself in the future she doesn't01:17:52
hesitate to to answer if you came see me01:17:54
in 5 years I think01:17:58
that that I probably be moved out on my01:18:02
own and I would like01:18:10
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that I do know that i' I'm went against01:18:20
the the odds and that I've done really01:18:24
good with my life um but I I don't I01:18:28
wonder if if I had like a different life01:18:30
if I wasn't in Foster what my life would01:18:32
be like over and over as we've spent the01:18:34
last seven years documenting the lives01:18:37
of children in the child welfare system01:18:39
we hear the same words the system is no01:18:42
place for a child 23-year-old Delina01:18:45
knows this all too well 15 foster homes01:18:49
a mother by age 15 and at 18 the01:18:53
decision to let her former foster mom01:18:55
adopt her little boy Kathy ended up01:18:58
adopting Gavin and I still have a a very01:19:02
very good relationship with Gavin um I'm01:19:04
still his mommy and um you know we see01:19:07
him weekly and01:19:09
um he just doesn't live with me after01:19:12
voluntarily giving up her rights to01:19:14
Gavin delina's life wasn't empty for01:19:17
long she and a former boyfriend went on01:19:19
to have a healthy baby boy Sage who01:19:23
helps keep delena's sights on the future01:19:25
you know Gavin has said to me before um01:19:28
I think you love sage more than me01:19:30
because Sage lives with you and you know01:19:33
I've explained to Gavin several times01:19:36
you you won't be able to understand it01:19:38
yet and I can't explain to you what has01:19:40
happened until you're older and you will01:19:42
be able to understand I Surrender he's01:19:46
surrendering although I would want more01:19:48
than anything for Gavin to um to be with01:19:51
me and to live with me full time01:19:53
I'm thankful that I at least have a01:19:56
relationship with01:19:58
him that's a that's a leap of01:20:03
love she did that because she I would01:20:07
imagine she felt that Gavin would have a01:20:11
a better life would live in a more01:20:13
stable environment than she could01:20:15
provide for him at that01:20:17
time but the fact that she has remained01:20:19
in his life has to be a double blessing01:20:23
for her for uh Kathy and for Gavin01:20:27
Delina is now engaged and at age 2301:20:30
finally enrolled in college she defies01:20:33
the odds only onethird of teenage moms01:20:36
receive their High School diplomas less01:20:38
than 2% earn a college degree by age 3001:20:42
but Delina hopes to someday become a01:20:44
nurse or maybe not surprisingly a social01:20:47
worker oh I'm going to do it it will01:20:50
happen it's just a matter of time yeah01:20:53
he goes to preschool and Sage knows how01:20:56
to count to five in01:20:58
Spanish I have to decide which way I01:21:00
want to go you have your own Road and I01:21:03
can either decide to say poor Delina you01:21:06
know nobody cared about me or I can say01:21:08
you know01:21:09
what nobody cared about me then but I01:21:12
have the people that care about me now01:21:14
and I'm going to have the people that01:21:15
care about me tomorrow and that's how I01:21:17
get through it that's exactly how I get01:21:18
through01:21:21
it01:21:39
[Music]01:21:43
there's a lot of power that the position01:21:46
has I am going to send you to detention01:21:49
today for 5 days one must be very01:21:53
careful how one uses that power it01:21:56
should never be abused but it is my job01:21:58
to make the final decision I can't I01:22:02
can't run away from that I can't duck it01:22:04
delinquent child for committing the01:22:06
delinquent Act of battery if the state01:22:09
is going to be involved in someone's01:22:11
life then there must be a compelling01:22:13
reason for it to01:22:14
happen and I am the one who has to make01:22:17
the final01:22:19
decision one of the last things my01:22:21
biological mother said to me just about01:22:24
3 years ago was Delina everything that's01:22:26
happened in your life is your01:22:29
fault and it's not it's not my fault but01:22:34
like I said every day is a learning01:22:36
experience and you cannot beat yourself01:22:39
up over stuff or you won't get to the01:22:40
next01:22:43
day for seven years we've been on a01:22:45
journey to understand how growing up in01:22:48
the child welfare system ultimately01:22:50
affects the children it's supposed to01:22:52
protect protect when you have public01:22:54
defenders or agency attorneys or foster01:22:57
parents with too many kids that they're01:22:59
responsible for then they can't do their01:23:02
job and I was critical for years about01:23:05
people not doing their job you you01:23:07
understand if there's another positive01:23:09
test for cocaine I'm going to order the01:23:11
children removed and we're going to find01:23:12
someplace else for them if we have a01:23:14
case load standard of 12 and 17 and a01:23:18
case worker has a case load of 35 or 5001:23:21
they literally can't do their job and so01:23:24
judge Payne did the extraordinary after01:23:26
20 years on the bench he resigned and01:23:29
jumped to the other side he is now the01:23:32
director of the State's Department of01:23:33
Child Services the very Department he01:23:36
railed against as a judge the system is01:23:39
so complex and so often uncaring and01:23:43
overdemanding01:23:45
and doesn't listen often to the children01:23:49
who have to live through it it's why in01:23:51
in the system01:23:53
what we talk about now are bringing in01:23:55
foster children who are now adults to01:23:57
say what should we be doing differently01:24:00
and the key often is just care about me01:24:03
listen to me Delina is the first to01:24:06
agree with that sentiment and says it's01:24:08
also why she hesitates to pursue a dream01:24:10
of hers a career in social work but01:24:13
despite the chaos of her childhood she01:24:16
doesn't blame the system for the madness01:24:18
in her life really sometimes there's01:24:21
only so much that social workers can do01:24:24
she had to place me back with my mom and01:24:27
um whenever she found out that I was01:24:29
taken away from her again um I saw her01:24:32
several years later and she said D I'm01:24:34
so sorry um that's what I had to do01:24:38
that's what you know was ordered um so I01:24:41
think that I would feel a lot of guilt01:24:43
sometimes as we've tracked the lives of01:24:45
each child over the years and watch them01:24:47
become young adults no two stories have01:24:50
been the same some like Delina have01:24:53
grown more resilient with time others01:24:55
leave more questions and answers and01:24:58
that includes Joshua he has not been01:25:01
back um it probably doesn't surprise me01:25:03
a lot that you haven't been able to find01:25:05
him in this day and age what one and two01:25:07
marriages and in divorce uh so perhaps01:25:10
they even left the area but no he's not01:25:12
been back to the juvenile court01:25:14
following his year at the ark Joshua and01:25:16
his family reportedly got back on track01:25:20
then after so much time money and01:25:22
intervention his case was closed and all01:25:25
contact between him and the court system01:25:27
was lost our efforts to find Joshua have01:25:31
proven unsuccessful with no National01:25:33
child welfare tracking system all judge01:25:36
bonaventura can do is hope Joshua and01:25:39
his family gain something positive from01:25:41
their experience in other days I'm01:25:43
amazed that people are as receptive um01:25:47
and that they do come around and then01:25:48
there are families that respond so those01:25:51
families that respond keep me at this01:25:53
job at one point I decided that it would01:25:56
be nice if I as the juvenile court judge01:25:58
in a large urban area took on as a01:26:01
challenge some kids to see if we could01:26:04
make a difference if I personally could01:26:05
make a difference and so I selected four01:26:09
cases and spent extra time with calling01:26:13
visiting chatting my wife and I took a01:26:16
couple of them to dinner to try to make01:26:18
a difference I arranged for one girl to01:26:20
get pedicure and a manicure and a face01:26:22
uh one to get dancing lessons uh because01:26:25
she loved dancing um two of those have01:26:28
worked out very well and two I've lost01:26:31
and have no idea where they are this is01:26:33
everyone yes sir my upshot of that was01:26:36
I'm not sure that it's possible to make01:26:39
a01:26:40
difference on the other hand I'm not01:26:42
sure that I'm ready not to try after01:26:45
following Connie for seven years we last01:26:48
found her living with her sister and01:26:50
struggling to get by but in her early01:26:53
20s she was proud she was on her own and01:26:56
out of the system since that last visit01:26:59
Connie has moved on and we've lost01:27:01
contact with her and so has the woman01:27:03
who worried so much about her as she01:27:05
made the tough calls about her future I01:27:08
Connie I just I wish I knew I wish I01:27:11
knew what had happened with Connie as01:27:13
for the judge herself she's now01:27:18
retired they were the people that were01:27:20
pretty much ruling my life um and you01:27:23
know I I wonder sometimes you know why01:27:25
did I get bounced around so much you01:27:27
know once I started really having a01:27:29
voice and being old enough to voice my01:27:31
opinion judge telair really listened to01:27:33
me I think she did a lot of good things01:27:35
for a lot of people and in the end after01:27:37
seven years of filming what we found is01:27:39
this kids raised by the system become01:27:43
dependent on the system sadly there's01:27:45
little in terms of a safety net once01:27:48
they become adults their stories are01:27:50
usually shielded from the public in turn01:27:53
their names their faces their struggles01:27:55
their triumphs are out of sight out of01:27:59
mind with more than a half million01:28:01
children in foster care 65,000 parents01:28:04
terminated their parental rights each01:28:06
year and more than 2.4 million01:28:09
grandparents raising their grandchildren01:28:12
the system may be no place for a child01:28:15
but tragically sometimes it's the only01:28:20
place it's always corny when people say01:28:23
it but seriously never give up you have01:28:25
to continue on and if you don't love01:28:28
yourself then you can't love anybody01:28:30
[Music]01:28:51
elseDescription:
In this exclusive full length documentary first filmed in 1999, we look back at five stories of kids and families as they go through years in the juvenile justice system. This film marked the first time cameras were ever allowed inside three different juvenile courts, as the kids and families involved agreed to have their stories filmed in the hopes that their experiences could help other families better understand what it's really like to be ensnared in a system that can often take decades to emerge from. These are the stories of Delena, Josh, Chelsea, Conni and Raymond and the years we spent with them inside the system. At the end of this video is an update on where they are now, 23 years after we first met them. All content produced and owned by Calamari Productions, LLC www.calamariproductions.com
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