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Red flags popped up everywhere, but now two children are dead
Jemiere Robinson’s murder is one of the most horrific child deaths King County prosecutors have ever seen. But being an outlier doesn’t mean the case of a 14-year-old apparently tortured to death by his own mother has no lessons to offer about holes in our child welfare system that threaten many more kids.
Last year’s fatal stabbing of 4-year-old Ariel Garcia at the hands of his mom also points to a serious, correctable, deficiency.
As unsolved teen murders spike in Seattle, a father pleads for our help
It would be easy for most of Seattle to forget them.
Each of the sixboys killed by gunfire in the city this year was too young to have made much of a mark on the world beyond their friends and family. The eldest was just 17; the next two, 16; two were high school freshmen. And the youngest had just graduated from middle school.
The state broke its promise to jailed youth. We’ll all pay for it
When 43 young men living at the Green Hill juvenile lockup were abruptly handcuffed and sent to state prison last month, lots of people surely assumed they were the worst of the worst — unrepentant and irredeemable.
A law protecting youth rights is blocking justice for Mobarak Adam’s family
For nearly two months there has been silence around the violent death of a ninth grader across the street from his West Seattle high school. No details about exactly how 15-year-old Mobarak Adam was shot, nor who was responsible, though police have a pretty good idea who was there.