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Death of Innocence: The True Story of an Unspeakable Teenage Crime
Death of Innocence The True Story of an Unspeakable Teenage Crime Author:Peter Meyer Picture a town, maybe your own, where everyone and everything is as perfect and seemingly safe as an American community could possibly be..a place where nobody locks their doors at night, a place you and your family proudly call home. Until, that is, a horrible crime unfolds with two adolescent girls walking home from school its victims. — "Horro... more »r" as described by the local newspaper. What the community and ultimately the vast media asked is how and why? The state of Vermont had to face for the first time in its history how to punish "kids" for what was had always been considered violent adult crimes.
This book is ultimately a story of what the future holds for the rest of the country in terms of juveniles committing violent crimes. Since this book was originally published, year by year and state by state, the age for trial as an adult has been reduced to what was previously considered a juvenile age.« less