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...health-care system. Knowledge without the insight to use it compassionately is terrifying, as your article on eugenics made abundantly clear. Give me the new genetically engineered therapies, but, Mr. Insurance Man, also give me a moment with my patient to explain what it all means. JONATHAN SHELDON, M.D. Englewood, Colo...
...year-old granddaughter Ryan Harris. "I thought it was a 17- and an 18-year-old," Hampton told TIME, "not seven and eight." Hampton's shock reverberated around the U.S. as Chicago police charged two preteen boys with the August murder in the city's grim Englewood district, declaring the pair had confessed to killing Ryan for her brand-new bicycle and molesting her body with a tree twig. But Hampton was still puzzled. Police at the scene when Ryan's body was discovered had told Hampton that "a lot of semen and stuff" had been found on her granddaughter...
Prosecutors refused to rule out the possibility that the boys would be charged if new evidence is uncovered. But police are circulating pictures of two men in their mid-20s around Englewood. The 7-year-old's mother told reporters that one of the men had offered her son to us after the murder. Her son, she said, saw the man "hurt Ryan...
There was dissension among the investigators as well, with the beat cops complaining about being big-footed by detectives. Englewood residents generally trust the uniformed cops, calling the detectives "slick boys." And despite public avowals, there was doubt among the detectives themselves. A violent-crimes detective called TIME before the charges were dropped to track down a potential witness mentioned in the magazine. He admitted that he believed the police may have accused at least one of the suspects wrongly. The older boy, he said, "got scared and rode away" when Ryan fell from her bike...
...boys, remanded to home detention by a judge, are free to return to school. Englewood residents are now claiming police coercion and racial bias in the case. The police deny any misconduct. "These babies just did not do this," says Shirley Blanton, a close friend of the families. Now, to celebrate, she says, "the whole neighborhood is going to have a barbecue"--except, perhaps, for the kin of Ryan Harris...