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...biggest challenge is making them emotionally whole again," says Philippe Houdard, founder of the Miami-based Developing Minds Foundation, "to get them from being killing machines to normal human beings." The rehabilitation program, started in 2003 and supported by Developing Minds and Colombia's Family Welfare Institute, offers housing, recreation, counseling, schooling and vocational training to former child soldiers. The 31 boys here are among the nearly 3,000 minors who have given up guerrilla life under a 2003 government amnesty program. The guerrilla groups, formed out of the leftist peasant militias of the 1960s, continue to fight Colombia...
Chief of Criminal Police Georges Clot recalled that Houdard had been in the Maquis. "He had to live off the land; that meant that often he did things that were not exactly legal. He doesn't seem to have gotten out of the habit...
Said Madame Houdard: "In no way do I excuse my husband's acts. He was a police official, and more than any others his duty was to remain an honest...
There are 1,500,000 civil servants in France and most of them are underpaid. Handsome Pierre Houdard, police commissioner of suburban St.-Cloud, considered himself especially underpaid after he met Betty Coujean. When Betty became his mistress, and Pierre had to support his wife, seven-year-old son and Betty on 13,000 francs ($108) a month, that settled it. Betty, the wife of a racketeer Pierre had put in jail, showed Pierre how he could cover up for a ring of automobile thieves, and make lots of francs...
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