How a recent case has left parents with more questions than answers

A few weeks ago, legal observers — and much of the nation — were closely following a criminal trial in Massachusetts involving a 20-year-old woman charged with involuntary manslaughter for sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to take his own life, which he sadly did. Specifically, prosecutors alleged that the then 17-year-old woman sent

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Restorative justice program for juveniles to be tested in Davidson County

Statistics show that the both the Metro-Nashville area and Davidson County have seen a troubling trend in recent years: an increase in both juvenile crime and violence. As discouraging as this development is, the good news is that the reaction of local officials hasn’t been to simply make more arrests. For example, the mayor’s office

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