Judge Kenneth Biehn poses at his home in Inlet, N.Y., Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. Judge Biehn sentenced Kareem Watts, then 14, to a juvenile program called Alternative Rehabilitation Communities from the bench of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas in 2001. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
AP - The boy before Judge Kenneth Biehn was quiet and withdrawn, an asthmatic whose mother used and sold crack cocaine and whose father was doing time for robbery. At just 14, Kareem Watts stood accused of his own, much more horrific crime: Stabbing to death a neighbor who disrespected his mother. |