http://connected.christianrecord.org/stories-articles/109/ Strengthening bonds with God, family, friends, and community. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:39:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://connected.christianrecord.org/stories-articles/109/#comment-42 Frankp Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:55:39 +0000 http://connected.christianrecord.org/stories-articles/109/#comment-42 Five stars ***** Five stars *****

]]> http://connected.christianrecord.org/stories-articles/109/#comment-34 Ron Reese Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:30:03 +0000 http://connected.christianrecord.org/stories-articles/109/#comment-34 Great reporting! Thanks for sounding out about a forgotten people, our runaways in the cities. What you showcased was not your normal glitz and glitter story about Las Vegas and all its bright lights/casinos. You took us to one of the many stories behind the scenes. Thank you for doing this. My stepsister moved their years ago with her Latino husband to seek their fortunes. They had five children. The two oldest eventually left home and took to life on the street. One of those, CJ, became involved peddling drugs on the streets of Vegas to support his drug habit. Once after a drug deal went bad, CJ was found beaten nearly to death by paramedics. A baseball bat had fractured his skull. Between the meth and the skull fracture, CJ is not the intelligent young Latino he once was. Since then he's been thrown in jail several times for behavior problems, once for barging into someone's home and trying to start a fire on their gas range. The stories of these two young men are merely the tip of the iceberg. Who knows how many more young people have fallen through the cracks of our society. Great reporting! Thanks for sounding out about a forgotten people, our runaways in the cities. What you showcased was not your normal glitz and glitter story about Las Vegas and all its bright lights/casinos. You took us to one of the many stories behind the scenes. Thank you for doing this. My stepsister moved their years ago with her Latino husband to seek their fortunes. They had five children. The two oldest eventually left home and took to life on the street. One of those, CJ, became involved peddling drugs on the streets of Vegas to support his drug habit. Once after a drug deal went bad, CJ was found beaten nearly to death by paramedics. A baseball bat had fractured his skull. Between the meth and the skull fracture, CJ is not the intelligent young Latino he once was. Since then he's been thrown in jail several times for behavior problems, once for barging into someone's home and trying to start a fire on their gas range. The stories of these two young men are merely the tip of the iceberg. Who knows how many more young people have fallen through the cracks of our society.

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