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...question was punctuated with a tickle, so the boy's "Yes!" responses were sung in breathless hysteria. It was a lighthearted moment in a year that has been heavy with pain and injustice. As the boy dashed out of the living room, the adults quickly turned sober again. Rosetta Crawford, the boy's grandmother and family matriarch, took a drag on her cigarette and said softly, "We were a quiet family. But somehow we became the most hated people in the world...
Last August, Crawford's grandson and another boy, one year younger, were charged with the murder of an 11-year-old girl, Ryan Harris, in a case that gained national attention as much for the youth of the suspects as for the crime's sickening details. Harris' body was discovered in the weeds of a vacant lot, her head smashed with a rock, panties stuffed in her mouth and leaves in her nostrils. A month later, after semen was discovered in her underwear, the charges against the boys were dropped, and DNA tests linked the crime to a convicted...
...members say the boy, now a third-grader, brings home grades that range from failing to barely passing. He has been so tormented by his peers that rather than fight, the boy has withdrawn socially, preferring to spend his time after school in the house. "Everything has changed," says Crawford. "He doesn't want to go outside...
...Crawford is worried that her efforts to get her grandson back on track could be hampered if the state calls him as a witness against Durr. And she is disappointed at the chill that remains between her family and that of Ryan Harris'. "It doesn't make any sense," Crawford says. "When this case is over, both of us will be right back here in the ghetto...
...Crawford said the NATO bombing has given Milosevic an excuse for his refusal to cooperate with the West...