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Q.C. Woman Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling on Juvenile Sentencing
This week's U. S. Supreme Court ruling on juvenile sentencing is a comfort to an East Moline woman. The nation's highest court says the sentence of life without parole can be given to a juvenile only in cases in which somebody is killed.

Dora Larson, national vice president of a group for victims and survivors, lived in Andover, in northwestern Illinois, when her then-10-year-old daughter, Vicki, was kidnapped and killed in 1979. The killer, Larson says, was a 15-year-old boy the family knew and trusted. Larson, a grandmotherly type who sees herself as a kind person, says she believes some people are simply "wired wrong" -- "monsters."

Larson says people affected by the ruling -- victims of juveniles sentenced to life without parole for crimes which stop short of murder or manslaughter -- will have to sit through the re-sentencing of those convicted.

(Illinois Radio Network)
05 19 10 by Newsroom
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