Word: provenzino
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...three days, Susan and Anthony Provenzino sat grim-faced in the paneled courtroom of St. Clair Shores, Michigan, their emotions ricocheting between anger, bewilderment and remorse as they pleaded for understanding. Pressed by city attorney Robert Ihrie to explain why they had supported the release of their son Alex, 16, from juvenile custody last summer, even though he had committed several burglaries and attacked his father with a golf club, Susan snapped, "I didn't want him in a youth home with murderers and rapists." Had she sought counseling for Alex? "I couldn't force him to go," Susan said...
Though the Provenzinos were charged with a misdemeanor, the media attention created an aura of criminal notoriety. Six satellite trucks descended on the courthouse, and portions of the trial were broadcast by CNN and COURT TV, sandwiched between segments of the Bosnia war-crimes tribunal. Within minutes of the verdict, the jury foreman was telling COURT TV that the message here was to "get involved with your kids." But the picture painted in court was not of inattentive parents; it was of frightened ones. Asked who controlled the Provenzino household, Alex's friend Andrew Nowak, 17, testified, "Alex...
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