1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:02,900 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:02,970 --> 00:00:06,780 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:08,780 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,610 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,670 --> 00:00:13,450 These are their stories. 6 00:00:15,210 --> 00:00:16,950 How do we know it's there? 'Cause I seen it. 7 00:00:17,050 --> 00:00:18,050 Where? 8 00:00:18,110 --> 00:00:19,420 If I tell you, you won't pay me. 9 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:20,890 Let's go. 10 00:00:20,950 --> 00:00:23,330 All right, it's down near the construction site. But that's all I'm saying. 11 00:00:23,650 --> 00:00:24,930 How much? Five each. 12 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,360 I got mine. All I got is two. 13 00:00:29,460 --> 00:00:30,460 Forget it. 14 00:00:30,530 --> 00:00:31,940 Come on, that's seven for the both of us. 15 00:00:31,990 --> 00:00:33,370 Yo, you wanna see it or not? 16 00:00:33,430 --> 00:00:35,270 Two bucks or I'm calling the cops. 17 00:00:35,330 --> 00:00:37,540 And what're you gonna tell 'em? Peace out. 18 00:00:38,230 --> 00:00:41,810 There was a 911 call about a dead kid in the construction area. 19 00:00:41,870 --> 00:00:43,470 Me and my partner took the job. 20 00:00:43,670 --> 00:00:44,880 That's where we found him. 21 00:00:44,940 --> 00:00:46,280 He was dead when you got here? 22 00:00:46,340 --> 00:00:47,950 I reached in and felt for a pulse. 23 00:00:48,010 --> 00:00:49,610 Thanks, Stevens. 24 00:00:49,810 --> 00:00:51,310 BRISCOE: Son of a bitch. 25 00:00:51,380 --> 00:00:53,990 Kid's seven or eight, neatly dressed. 26 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,790 Till somebody pulled his pants down. 27 00:00:55,850 --> 00:00:57,300 Yeah, I'll check for signs of sexual abuse. 28 00:00:57,620 --> 00:00:59,960 Maybe all this creep needed was a little peek. 29 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,360 All right, let's pull him out. 30 00:01:03,130 --> 00:01:07,510 My guess is the perp nailed him out here, and then hid his body in the pipe. 31 00:01:07,860 --> 00:01:10,170 ED: Looks like blood on his scalp. 32 00:01:10,230 --> 00:01:11,910 There's something in his mouth. 33 00:01:11,970 --> 00:01:13,610 Let me take a look. 34 00:01:17,510 --> 00:01:19,490 It's a triple A battery. 35 00:01:20,940 --> 00:01:22,750 Crazy son of a bitch. 36 00:02:12,590 --> 00:02:15,230 The kid's a John Doe. We checked Missing Persons. 37 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:17,140 There's no reports matching his description. 38 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,580 Well someone's gonna miss that little boy sooner or later. 39 00:02:19,670 --> 00:02:22,010 Patrol's canvassing the neighborhood with his picture. 40 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:24,850 Only got two teams, Loo. How about calling the borough for some extra bodies? 41 00:02:24,910 --> 00:02:27,080 I'm on it. Anything on that 911 call? 42 00:02:27,140 --> 00:02:31,110 Communications can pinpoint the location once they find the tape. 43 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:32,990 Hey, it's Saturday. 44 00:02:33,050 --> 00:02:34,720 The M.E.'s working. 45 00:02:37,420 --> 00:02:39,830 Cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage. 46 00:02:39,890 --> 00:02:41,660 From the way the skull fractured, you're looking for 47 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,460 a blunt, irregularly shaped object. 48 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:46,340 Like one of the 10,000 rocks near the body? 49 00:02:46,530 --> 00:02:47,600 When was he killed? 50 00:02:47,660 --> 00:02:50,740 Uh, maybe an hour or two before they found him. 51 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,440 Kid was clean. No tearing, no fluids. 52 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:57,480 I found particles of sodium chloride on his hands. 53 00:02:57,540 --> 00:02:58,610 Salt? 54 00:02:58,670 --> 00:02:59,810 Yeah, the large grain kind. 55 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,580 Maybe from some kind of snack item. 56 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:03,450 Were there any prints on the Triple A? 57 00:03:03,510 --> 00:03:04,750 Latent couldn't lift anything useable. 58 00:03:04,810 --> 00:03:05,920 (CELL PHONE RINGING) 59 00:03:06,010 --> 00:03:09,020 I can tell you it was inserted postmortem. Who knows why? 60 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:10,260 Green. 61 00:03:11,350 --> 00:03:14,300 Hang on. Communications got a hit on the 911. 62 00:03:14,660 --> 00:03:16,070 Thanks. Yeah. 63 00:03:19,260 --> 00:03:20,710 SHORTY: I didn't call the police. 64 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,570 We have your voice on tape. 65 00:03:22,630 --> 00:03:24,540 Yeah, well my voice sounds like a lot of kids. 66 00:03:24,630 --> 00:03:26,980 We traced the call to your phone. 67 00:03:28,140 --> 00:03:29,380 You can do that? 68 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,180 It's cool, you don't want to talk to us, I know how you feel. 69 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,240 But we have a murdered child. 70 00:03:34,310 --> 00:03:35,620 You saw the body. 71 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,250 I had nothing to do with it, I swear. 72 00:03:37,310 --> 00:03:38,520 How did you know where he was? 73 00:03:38,580 --> 00:03:40,750 This kid I know told me. Jonas. 74 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,190 Why'd he do that? 75 00:03:42,250 --> 00:03:45,030 I don't know. He wanted money to show us the dead kid. 76 00:03:45,550 --> 00:03:48,060 What's a dead kid go for these days? 77 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,700 Five bucks. 78 00:03:51,490 --> 00:03:53,970 I just heard about this on the news. What's it have to do with Jonas? 79 00:03:54,030 --> 00:03:56,700 Your kid was selling tickets to see the body. 80 00:03:56,770 --> 00:03:58,570 What the hell? Come on, Dad. 81 00:03:58,630 --> 00:04:00,200 You have three seconds to explain this. 82 00:04:00,270 --> 00:04:03,080 I just heard a bunch of kids talking about it in the park. I never even seen it. 83 00:04:03,140 --> 00:04:04,810 Who are these kids? Just some kids. 84 00:04:04,910 --> 00:04:07,510 The girl who told me where the body was was on my Little League team, 85 00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:08,580 like five years ago. 86 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:10,320 What's her name? I don't remember. 87 00:04:10,380 --> 00:04:12,950 I don't. She was just this dork who was scared of the ball. 88 00:04:13,010 --> 00:04:16,720 I have his team photo inside. All the kids signed the back. 89 00:04:19,690 --> 00:04:22,500 Do you remember Jonas, from the Asteroids? 90 00:04:23,060 --> 00:04:25,560 He said you knew where the body was. 91 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:28,700 He was in the pipe. 92 00:04:29,060 --> 00:04:31,200 BRISCOE: Do you know the boy's name? 93 00:04:31,270 --> 00:04:33,270 I saw a man put him there. 94 00:04:33,340 --> 00:04:35,040 You saw this, Tara? 95 00:04:35,170 --> 00:04:36,980 Do you know this man? 96 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:38,040 No. 97 00:04:38,110 --> 00:04:39,520 But you remember what the man looked like? 98 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:41,450 Not really. 99 00:04:41,510 --> 00:04:43,890 Come on, Tara. You can do better than that. Was he black or white? 100 00:04:43,950 --> 00:04:45,020 White. 101 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,290 ED: You must have noticed his hair. 102 00:04:47,350 --> 00:04:49,800 Yeah. He had short hair. 103 00:04:50,190 --> 00:04:52,190 And sideburns on his face. 104 00:04:52,250 --> 00:04:53,460 Why didn't you tell me? 105 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,160 You told me not to play over there. 106 00:04:55,220 --> 00:04:57,130 So what were you doing? Mrs. Padden, please. 107 00:04:57,690 --> 00:04:59,230 How about his clothes? 108 00:04:59,290 --> 00:05:01,170 He had a blue uniform. 109 00:05:01,430 --> 00:05:04,170 And he smelled like gas, like from a car. 110 00:05:04,530 --> 00:05:05,980 You were close enough to smell him? 111 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:08,610 After he put the boy in the pipe. 112 00:05:08,670 --> 00:05:10,210 When he walked back. 113 00:05:10,270 --> 00:05:12,680 He didn't know I was watching him. 114 00:05:13,940 --> 00:05:16,080 We had the witness sit down with an artist. 115 00:05:16,140 --> 00:05:19,460 We're figuring the perp works in a gas station or auto repair. 116 00:05:19,550 --> 00:05:21,080 Yeah, there's no hit on the MO 117 00:05:21,150 --> 00:05:23,290 and all our local pervos are accounted for, 118 00:05:23,350 --> 00:05:24,850 so this guy may have a clean sheet. 119 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:26,900 So we'll canvass in sectors around the murder scene. 120 00:05:26,990 --> 00:05:28,560 Yes, Lennie has the assignments. 121 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:32,370 I want you to flash the victim's photo along with the sketch. 122 00:05:32,460 --> 00:05:35,170 Somebody may have seen the boy with Mr. Goodwrench. 123 00:05:35,230 --> 00:05:37,140 Nobody reported the kid missing? 124 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:38,540 Maybe the kid's from out of town. 125 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,940 Or the doer's one of his parents. 126 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,420 I got two Pakistanis working here plus one Tamil, one Nigerian. 127 00:05:45,510 --> 00:05:46,750 This looks like Bruce Willis. 128 00:05:46,810 --> 00:05:49,120 What about this boy? You see him this morning? 129 00:05:49,180 --> 00:05:50,550 Oh, my God. 130 00:05:50,610 --> 00:05:51,850 Is that ayes? 131 00:05:51,910 --> 00:05:55,160 No, no, no, this boy comes with his mother to buy the Lotto. 132 00:05:55,220 --> 00:05:56,220 You're sure? 133 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:58,460 She lets him pick the numbers. 134 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,520 Sometimes she charges her gas on her Visa card. 135 00:06:04,630 --> 00:06:07,230 Aaron's just seven. What's he have to do with the police? 136 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,240 Was he wearing a navy blue T-shirt and white Reebok sneakers this morning? 137 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:14,040 He's at my sister's in the village. 138 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,910 Did you speak to either one of them today, Mrs. Polansky? 139 00:06:19,140 --> 00:06:22,880 Well, not since this morning. But I just got back from work. 140 00:06:23,180 --> 00:06:24,560 Oh, my God. 141 00:06:24,650 --> 00:06:26,060 Where is he? 142 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,130 We're sorry. 143 00:06:33,260 --> 00:06:34,670 (WHIMPERS) 144 00:06:38,490 --> 00:06:40,600 I left him alone for an hour. 145 00:06:40,660 --> 00:06:42,610 Ruth was supposed to get him. 146 00:06:42,930 --> 00:06:45,280 We found him near the highway construction. 147 00:06:46,470 --> 00:06:48,380 Why didn't she call me? 148 00:06:50,740 --> 00:06:52,120 Oh, my God. 149 00:06:55,110 --> 00:06:56,450 He's dead. 150 00:06:58,380 --> 00:07:01,290 Aaron, my baby. 151 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:03,900 (SOBBING) 152 00:07:10,090 --> 00:07:12,470 Why don't we call your sister, huh? 153 00:07:12,530 --> 00:07:14,870 Yeah, why don't we? 154 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:19,640 I came by to pick Aaron up, but no one was home. 155 00:07:19,700 --> 00:07:22,240 I thought my sister took him to work. She's done that before. 156 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:23,910 Why didn't you call your sister at work? 157 00:07:23,970 --> 00:07:25,140 I did. 158 00:07:25,410 --> 00:07:26,650 Oh, God. 159 00:07:26,940 --> 00:07:28,790 I guess she didn't get her message. 160 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,650 Could Aaron get out by himself? 161 00:07:31,150 --> 00:07:32,750 He was tall enough to reach the lock. 162 00:07:32,810 --> 00:07:34,450 ED: Was their door locked when you got there? 163 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,690 It was, but I have keys. 164 00:07:37,650 --> 00:07:39,460 I should have kept calling. 165 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,230 Why don't we go upstairs to your sister? 166 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,660 Uh, can anybody get in the front door? 167 00:07:44,730 --> 00:07:47,070 You gotta have keys or get buzzed in. 168 00:07:47,130 --> 00:07:49,270 You remember seeing a guy go in with a blue uniform, 169 00:07:49,330 --> 00:07:51,680 like a gas station jumpsuit, something like that? 170 00:07:51,730 --> 00:07:53,240 Late 30's, short hair? 171 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:54,370 Could be. 172 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,540 Sounds like 1-B's boyfriend. 173 00:07:59,070 --> 00:08:00,350 Dale Varnette? 174 00:08:00,410 --> 00:08:01,510 Yeah? 175 00:08:01,580 --> 00:08:04,390 Your boss says you were on a break this morning around 10:00? 176 00:08:04,450 --> 00:08:05,480 Yeah, that's right. 177 00:08:05,550 --> 00:08:06,690 We need to talk. 178 00:08:06,750 --> 00:08:08,160 Richie wanted his car an hour ago. 179 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:10,360 Richie's gonna have to wait. 180 00:08:10,820 --> 00:08:13,460 You visit your girlfriend this morning? 181 00:08:13,860 --> 00:08:15,230 She say I did something to her? 182 00:08:15,290 --> 00:08:16,860 Why did you have a little eye-opener with her? 183 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:18,430 Hey, pal, she made me a cup of coffee. 184 00:08:18,490 --> 00:08:19,770 So you couldn't have been there very long. 185 00:08:19,830 --> 00:08:21,210 I was in a hurry to get back to work. 186 00:08:21,260 --> 00:08:23,240 That's why you took the shortcut through the construction site? 187 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:24,370 Construction site? 188 00:08:24,430 --> 00:08:26,380 Yeah we got a eye witness puts you there with a little boy. 189 00:08:26,430 --> 00:08:28,000 Little boy? What the hell you talking about? 190 00:08:28,070 --> 00:08:30,170 The kid you abducted from your girlfriend's building. 191 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,650 No way. No way. All I did was have a cup of coffee, and go back to work. Alone. 192 00:08:34,710 --> 00:08:36,590 Anybody see you leave? 193 00:08:37,780 --> 00:08:40,990 Yeah, okay, yeah. There was this girl there, 13,14. 194 00:08:41,050 --> 00:08:42,550 She was standing in front of the building. 195 00:08:42,620 --> 00:08:44,620 You're gonna have do better than that. 196 00:08:44,690 --> 00:08:47,830 Brown hair, kinda skinny, wearing a Knicks T-shirt. 197 00:08:47,890 --> 00:08:49,130 She was by the building? 198 00:08:49,190 --> 00:08:51,100 Yeah. She was standing by the door, 199 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,660 like she was waiting for somebody. 200 00:08:52,730 --> 00:08:55,070 You're gonna have to come down to the station while we straighten this out. 201 00:08:55,130 --> 00:08:56,300 Why couldn't you just find my witness? 202 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:57,900 We already did. 203 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:02,580 BRISCOE: Here's the problem, Tara. 204 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,280 You say you saw the man by the construction site. 205 00:09:05,340 --> 00:09:06,510 I did. 206 00:09:06,570 --> 00:09:08,650 But we think you saw him by the little boy's building, 207 00:09:08,710 --> 00:09:10,250 on 46th street. 208 00:09:10,610 --> 00:09:12,610 I wasn't at the building. 209 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:14,250 BRISCOE: You sure about that, Tara? 210 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,590 Why do you think she's lying? 211 00:09:15,650 --> 00:09:17,650 I'm not lying, Mom. I swear. 212 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,930 Did you pass by that building any other time today? 213 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:22,190 No. 214 00:09:22,260 --> 00:09:24,430 All right, Mrs. Padden. Detective Briscoe is going to take you 215 00:09:24,490 --> 00:09:26,340 to fill out a CB 12-14. 216 00:09:26,390 --> 00:09:27,400 What's that? 217 00:09:27,460 --> 00:09:28,840 Cab Fare Requisition Form. 218 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:31,710 Yeah, so the City will pay for your transportation home. 219 00:09:40,340 --> 00:09:41,910 While your mom's taking care of that, Tara, 220 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:43,380 can you help me with something? 221 00:09:43,450 --> 00:09:44,790 All right. 222 00:09:45,580 --> 00:09:49,120 We're trying to catch the man that hurt that little boy. 223 00:09:49,420 --> 00:09:51,560 I told you everything I saw. 224 00:09:51,750 --> 00:09:56,170 I noticed your mom rubs her lip, when she's unhappy about something. 225 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:58,700 Like this. Right? 226 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:04,330 And when you're nervous, you twirl your hair with your finger. 227 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:07,340 It's just a habit. 228 00:10:07,570 --> 00:10:10,210 I think you do it when you're telling a lie. 229 00:10:10,270 --> 00:10:12,310 Do you recognize this man? 230 00:10:12,410 --> 00:10:14,390 That's the man I saw at the pipes. 231 00:10:15,180 --> 00:10:18,850 We talked to him. He says you saw him at the little boy's building. 232 00:10:18,910 --> 00:10:20,690 He's lying or you're lying. 233 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,320 I'm not. 234 00:10:23,590 --> 00:10:25,930 I'm going to speak to you like a young woman, Tara. 235 00:10:26,590 --> 00:10:28,570 Do you understand how important this is? 236 00:10:28,620 --> 00:10:31,130 If you don't believe me, you can ask my friend. 237 00:10:31,430 --> 00:10:33,030 Someone else saw what happened? 238 00:10:33,460 --> 00:10:35,870 Jenny. She's my best friend. 239 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,510 Her friend Tara says they were playing by the highway construction yesterday. 240 00:10:41,570 --> 00:10:42,570 Oh, yeah? 241 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:43,950 It was just for a couple of minutes. 242 00:10:44,010 --> 00:10:45,080 Tara made me go. 243 00:10:45,140 --> 00:10:46,780 Wasn't Gabbie watching you? 244 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,380 She had to go somewhere with her father. 245 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:50,250 Did you see something happen down there? 246 00:10:50,310 --> 00:10:51,720 You mean with the man in the blue uniform? 247 00:10:51,780 --> 00:10:52,780 That's right. 248 00:10:52,850 --> 00:10:57,390 Well, there was this man and he had this kid who was like dead or something, 249 00:10:57,450 --> 00:10:59,690 and he was putting him inside a pipe. 250 00:10:59,750 --> 00:11:01,890 Why didn't you tell anybody? 251 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,130 Tara said not to tell. She's in 7th grade. 252 00:11:06,790 --> 00:11:08,710 Mom, can I go back to the swings now? 253 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,270 Sure, sweetie. 254 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,780 Maybe you should have a talk with her. 255 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:16,840 Sure. 256 00:11:16,910 --> 00:11:20,280 BRISCOE: At some point we may need your daughter to view a line-up. 257 00:11:20,340 --> 00:11:24,760 Well, you already have her friend. Why do you have to drag her into this? 258 00:11:25,410 --> 00:11:27,760 I say we've got enough to charge Varnette. 259 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:29,660 Tara Padden ID'd his photo. 260 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,700 And Varnette ID'd her, in front of the dead kid's building. 261 00:11:32,750 --> 00:11:34,600 Maybe he noticed her at the murder scene. 262 00:11:34,660 --> 00:11:38,130 Not a bad scam. Turn the eyewitness into his alibi. 263 00:11:38,290 --> 00:11:41,040 I'm not buying it. I still think the kid is lying. 264 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:42,570 Because she plays with her hair? 265 00:11:42,630 --> 00:11:43,730 You played cards with her, Ed? 266 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,940 Varnette's lawyer calls here every 10 minutes 267 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,540 to ask what we're holding him on. 268 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,450 Look, if he walked the boy out of the building, 269 00:11:50,510 --> 00:11:52,710 someone had to have seen them. 270 00:11:52,770 --> 00:11:54,410 I'll buy you some time. 271 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,390 You bring me a witness. 272 00:11:58,580 --> 00:12:01,790 His name is Dale Varnette. He's got a girlfriend in 1-B. 273 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:03,560 He doesn't look familiar. 274 00:12:03,620 --> 00:12:05,620 What about you, Jake? You remember seeing this man? 275 00:12:05,690 --> 00:12:07,260 Look, we're trying to catch a movie. 276 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,100 The man came here yesterday? 277 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:10,660 BRISCOE: Yeah, did you see him? 278 00:12:10,730 --> 00:12:11,900 I don't remember him. 279 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,340 FRED: Is that it? 280 00:12:13,490 --> 00:12:16,030 Jenny was here Saturday. Maybe she remembers. 281 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:17,900 Jenny Brandt? 282 00:12:18,130 --> 00:12:19,870 He knows her from school. 283 00:12:19,930 --> 00:12:21,850 She wanted me to see if I could come outside. 284 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:23,110 She said she would get me a hot dog. 285 00:12:23,710 --> 00:12:24,810 Did you go with her? 286 00:12:25,370 --> 00:12:27,410 I don't like to play with her. She hits. 287 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:30,180 Maybe you can still make that movie. 288 00:12:31,010 --> 00:12:34,390 What do you think, Lennie? The two girls came by to lure Jake with a hot dog? 289 00:12:34,450 --> 00:12:36,900 The salt on Aaron Polansky's hands. 290 00:12:36,990 --> 00:12:39,160 Maybe he didn't want a hot dog. 291 00:12:39,250 --> 00:12:40,260 WOMAN: Thanks. 292 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,300 Sold about five dozen pretzels yesterday. 293 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:43,360 Saturday is my best day. 294 00:12:43,460 --> 00:12:46,130 You remember this kid? His name's Aaron Polansky? 295 00:12:46,260 --> 00:12:47,260 I don't think so. 296 00:12:47,330 --> 00:12:49,770 Try putting him with a couple of girls, 10 and 12 years old. 297 00:12:49,830 --> 00:12:51,330 Lot of little girls in the neighborhood. 298 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,110 One of them had blond hair and pigtails. 299 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,110 Okay. 300 00:12:56,370 --> 00:13:00,050 She was 10 cents short. Cute kid, looked like she was gonna cry. 301 00:13:00,110 --> 00:13:01,780 So I let her slide. 302 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:03,050 Thanks. 303 00:13:03,510 --> 00:13:05,550 I was hoping you were wrong. 304 00:13:05,750 --> 00:13:09,350 Oh, I got a knot in my stomach just thinking about this. 305 00:13:09,420 --> 00:13:12,860 It all adds up. Jenny goes inside while Tara waits outside. 306 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,930 Varnette said she was hanging out by the building. 307 00:13:16,020 --> 00:13:18,530 Maybe there's something we're missing. 308 00:13:18,590 --> 00:13:21,510 Call the parents, have them bring the girls down for a talk. 309 00:13:22,660 --> 00:13:24,540 Ed had some rapport with the older girl. 310 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:26,940 Once Lennie got the mother out of the way. 311 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,410 Okay, you take the 10-year-old. Her mother will have to be in the room. 312 00:13:30,470 --> 00:13:31,780 The other girl's 13. 313 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,010 So you can talk to her without a parent present. 314 00:13:36,580 --> 00:13:38,280 Are you sure about that? 315 00:13:38,350 --> 00:13:40,190 I'll let the mother listen through the one-way. 316 00:13:40,250 --> 00:13:41,990 If she wants to stop, I'll let you know. 317 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:43,080 Sounds good. 318 00:13:43,580 --> 00:13:46,220 I'm giving you a little slack here, Ed. 319 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,400 Just don't break the rope. 320 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,200 You understand, you can get a lawyer if you want? 321 00:13:56,260 --> 00:13:58,510 I don't think we need a lawyer. 322 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,450 Now, yesterday morning, Jenny, you went out to play with your friend Tara? 323 00:14:04,170 --> 00:14:07,380 First Tara came over and we watched some cartoons. 324 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,220 Then Mom said we could go to the playground. 325 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,760 You were supposed to be with Gabbie. 326 00:14:11,980 --> 00:14:14,150 BRISCOE: Do you know a boy named Jake Hansen? 327 00:14:14,220 --> 00:14:15,320 Yeah. 328 00:14:15,820 --> 00:14:17,660 Did you go to his apartment? 329 00:14:18,190 --> 00:14:21,360 I went with Tara. We just wanted to see if he could come play with us. 330 00:14:21,420 --> 00:14:23,300 You told me you were going straight to the playground. 331 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:24,770 No, I didn't. 332 00:14:24,830 --> 00:14:28,140 This isn't fair. Why is everyone asking me questions? 333 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:32,880 This Jake Hansen, he lives in the same building as the boy that was murdered? 334 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,410 That's right. 335 00:14:37,470 --> 00:14:40,210 You know something? My husband had a lawyer. Maybe I should talk to him. 336 00:14:40,980 --> 00:14:42,220 He had a lawyer? 337 00:14:43,610 --> 00:14:44,950 Vince is in jail. 338 00:14:45,310 --> 00:14:46,590 For what? 339 00:14:46,710 --> 00:14:48,220 Stealing cars. 340 00:14:50,990 --> 00:14:52,990 I wanna make a phone call. 341 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,760 ED: Remember how we talked about what you saw at the construction site, Tara? 342 00:14:59,890 --> 00:15:02,400 I saw the man with the blue uniform. 343 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,230 Remember how I said you were getting to be a young lady? 344 00:15:06,370 --> 00:15:07,470 Yeah. 345 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,310 Young ladies only tell the truth, right? 346 00:15:11,770 --> 00:15:12,950 Right. 347 00:15:15,110 --> 00:15:17,320 Unless they're bad young ladies? 348 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,830 I know you're not really bad. 349 00:15:26,390 --> 00:15:28,590 I know that in my heart, okay? 350 00:15:30,220 --> 00:15:31,330 Okay. 351 00:15:32,490 --> 00:15:35,960 So I want you to tell me the truth about what happened. 352 00:15:37,830 --> 00:15:39,000 I did. 353 00:15:40,430 --> 00:15:42,040 You go to IS 48? 354 00:15:42,970 --> 00:15:44,070 Yeah. 355 00:15:44,140 --> 00:15:45,550 Like school? 356 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,380 It's hard. 357 00:15:48,540 --> 00:15:50,020 You still play little league? 358 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:51,220 Just soccer. 359 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,920 Ooh, maybe I'm talking to the next Mia Hamm. 360 00:15:57,050 --> 00:15:58,500 I'll never be as good as her. 361 00:15:58,550 --> 00:16:00,360 But you're getting better though, right? 362 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,330 I guess so. 363 00:16:04,290 --> 00:16:05,930 When I was a kid, 364 00:16:05,990 --> 00:16:09,170 all my friends tried out for the basketball team. 365 00:16:10,530 --> 00:16:12,570 But I pretended I was sick. 366 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,740 Because you weren't good enough? 367 00:16:17,870 --> 00:16:18,980 Yeah. 368 00:16:20,780 --> 00:16:23,090 I never told anyone that before. 369 00:16:24,410 --> 00:16:26,820 I feel better now that I told you. 370 00:16:27,380 --> 00:16:30,420 You know sometimes when you try to keep a secret, 371 00:16:30,490 --> 00:16:32,900 it hurts to hold it inside of you. 372 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:35,260 Yeah. 373 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,130 But if you have a friend to share it with, 374 00:16:38,690 --> 00:16:40,600 it feels better, right? 375 00:16:42,060 --> 00:16:43,740 I want to be your friend, Tara. 376 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:47,710 I think 377 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,080 you have a secret, 378 00:16:52,710 --> 00:16:55,120 about what happened to that little boy. 379 00:16:55,180 --> 00:16:56,450 (SOBBING) 380 00:16:58,580 --> 00:17:00,350 Hold my hands, Tara. 381 00:17:01,420 --> 00:17:03,190 It's okay. Go ahead. 382 00:17:07,990 --> 00:17:09,800 We're friends, right? 383 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,610 ED: I wanna share that secret with you 384 00:17:19,170 --> 00:17:21,080 It's okay to cry, Tara. 385 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:24,210 All that pain you're feeling, I want you to give some of that to me. 386 00:17:24,510 --> 00:17:25,610 Okay. 387 00:17:26,410 --> 00:17:28,890 I'm not gonna let anybody hurt you if you tell, okay? 388 00:17:28,940 --> 00:17:30,290 I promise. 389 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,790 We didn't see the man at the construction. 390 00:17:33,180 --> 00:17:34,720 ED: Okay, good. 391 00:17:34,950 --> 00:17:36,590 Who was there? Tell me who was there. 392 00:17:36,650 --> 00:17:38,690 It... It was me and Jenny. 393 00:17:39,050 --> 00:17:40,360 What did you and Jenny do? 394 00:17:40,420 --> 00:17:42,490 We took him there. The little boy. 395 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:44,730 Did somebody hit him? 396 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,460 Jenny did. Jenny hit him with a rock. 397 00:17:47,660 --> 00:17:48,800 More than once? 398 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:50,640 Like this. 399 00:17:57,370 --> 00:17:58,580 Did you hit him? 400 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:00,420 Just Jenny. 401 00:18:00,710 --> 00:18:02,350 Did you know Jenny was going to hurt him? 402 00:18:02,410 --> 00:18:03,450 No. 403 00:18:03,950 --> 00:18:05,580 What did you do after she hit him? 404 00:18:05,650 --> 00:18:07,350 He wouldn't wake up. 405 00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:09,400 So we put him in the pipe. 406 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,490 And you pulled his pants down? 407 00:18:11,550 --> 00:18:12,660 Yeah. 408 00:18:12,820 --> 00:18:14,200 Why did you do that? 409 00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:16,740 I don't know. Jenny said to. 410 00:18:18,130 --> 00:18:19,660 It's okay, Tara. 411 00:18:19,730 --> 00:18:22,040 Thank you for telling the truth. 412 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,800 You're a very good young lady. 413 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:30,580 (SOBBING) 414 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:36,920 CLERK: "Docket numbers 556 and 557." 415 00:18:36,980 --> 00:18:39,120 "In the matter of Tara Padden and Jennifer Brandt." 416 00:18:39,180 --> 00:18:40,660 "Murder in the second degree." 417 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:41,720 (CROWD MURMURING) 418 00:18:41,820 --> 00:18:43,390 How old are these children? 419 00:18:43,450 --> 00:18:45,730 Miss Brandt is 10. Miss Padden is 13. 420 00:18:45,790 --> 00:18:48,860 We may transfer her to Supreme Court and prosecute her as an adult. 421 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,600 Let us know, Ms. Carmichael. You want bail? 422 00:18:51,660 --> 00:18:54,000 There's obviously been a lack of parental control here. 423 00:18:54,060 --> 00:18:55,440 I represent Tara Padden. 424 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:57,840 Your Honor, Ms. Carmichael assumes my client is guilty. 425 00:18:57,970 --> 00:18:59,470 CARMICHAEL: She confessed, Judge. 426 00:18:59,530 --> 00:19:01,950 The statement was elicited by an aggressive officer, 427 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,950 who pressured her to tell him what he wanted to hear. 428 00:19:05,010 --> 00:19:07,540 I'm moving to suppress the statement. 429 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,040 I'll put the matter over for a hearing. 430 00:19:10,110 --> 00:19:11,450 What about Miss Brandt? 431 00:19:11,510 --> 00:19:13,750 She denies any participation in this. 432 00:19:13,810 --> 00:19:15,950 Miss Padden's statement indicates Miss Brandt was the one 433 00:19:16,020 --> 00:19:17,090 who hit the victim with a rock. 434 00:19:17,150 --> 00:19:19,890 Tara's a liar. She blames everything on me, 'cause she's older. 435 00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:21,760 JUDGE: Quiet down, Miss. 436 00:19:22,060 --> 00:19:24,760 I'm releasing these children to their parents. 437 00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:25,960 Your Honor... 438 00:19:26,030 --> 00:19:29,100 But I am requiring electronic ankle monitoring. 439 00:19:29,930 --> 00:19:31,100 You should've been there. 440 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:33,200 The ankle monitors we had didn't fit. 441 00:19:33,270 --> 00:19:35,180 We had to punch extra holes. 442 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,510 If it wasn't so pathetic... 443 00:19:36,570 --> 00:19:37,880 What about this confession? 444 00:19:37,940 --> 00:19:41,440 If there was manipulation, her mother could have jumped in. 445 00:19:41,810 --> 00:19:43,550 "Share your pain with me," 446 00:19:43,610 --> 00:19:44,610 "the next Mia Hamm." 447 00:19:44,850 --> 00:19:46,950 What I hear is damn good police work. 448 00:19:47,010 --> 00:19:49,020 I see an overzealous cop. 449 00:19:50,850 --> 00:19:53,260 This didn't make you uncomfortable, Anita? 450 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,530 Maybe I could have pulled him back a little. 451 00:19:55,590 --> 00:19:58,970 But it doesn't mean it didn't happen the way the girl said. 452 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,270 Or she made up a story to please an authority figure. 453 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,130 CARMICHAEL: ls Dale Varnette still in custody? 454 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,800 We released him. As far as we're concerned, the case is closed. 455 00:20:07,270 --> 00:20:10,270 It could all fall apart at the suppression hearing. 456 00:20:11,070 --> 00:20:14,210 Well, now, that depends on you, Counselor. 457 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,290 Those girls killed that little boy. 458 00:20:20,410 --> 00:20:21,620 (DOOR OPENING) 459 00:20:24,750 --> 00:20:28,460 SPECTOR: The police did everything possible to manipulate this little girl. 460 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:29,930 They bribed her with a Happy Meal. 461 00:20:29,990 --> 00:20:31,490 They chatted about her hobbies. 462 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,540 JACK: The detective was creating a bond of trust with the suspect. 463 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:35,940 Or an atmosphere of coercion. 464 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,840 Why did Detective Green suggest details of the crime to her? 465 00:20:38,930 --> 00:20:41,210 This wasn't a kid who wouldn't talk without a little prodding. 466 00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:42,680 A little prodding? 467 00:20:42,740 --> 00:20:44,810 This was a snow job on a girl who repeated the sixth grade. 468 00:20:45,540 --> 00:20:48,110 JACK: The police are allowed to use deception during questioning. 469 00:20:48,180 --> 00:20:49,350 With an adult, 470 00:20:49,410 --> 00:20:51,320 who's presumed to have the intelligence and experience 471 00:20:51,380 --> 00:20:52,550 to evaluate these lies. 472 00:20:52,610 --> 00:20:54,220 JACK: The mother could have stopped it at anytime. 473 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,890 Why did the police exclude her? 474 00:20:55,950 --> 00:20:58,860 When they interviewed Tara previously, the mother was inhibiting her. 475 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,590 And why wasn't Detective Green's partner present? 476 00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:04,360 Detective Green had already established a rapport with her. 477 00:21:04,490 --> 00:21:06,340 He's been cited twice for excessive force. 478 00:21:06,390 --> 00:21:07,870 He held her hand. 479 00:21:07,930 --> 00:21:10,070 Are you accusing him of excessive kindness? 480 00:21:10,130 --> 00:21:11,510 I'm accusing him of railroading a child. 481 00:21:11,570 --> 00:21:13,700 All right, I've heard enough. 482 00:21:13,770 --> 00:21:15,540 I've reviewed the interrogation. 483 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,170 It's apparent the police acted in a manner calculated 484 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,550 to manufacture an admission from an immature 13-year-old. 485 00:21:21,610 --> 00:21:24,680 This so-called confession is inherently unreliable, 486 00:21:24,750 --> 00:21:27,350 it doesn't pass due process standards, 487 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:28,650 and I won't consider it. 488 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,960 Motion to suppress is granted. 489 00:21:32,790 --> 00:21:33,890 What do we have to do? 490 00:21:33,950 --> 00:21:36,030 Put an A.D.A. in every precinct? 491 00:21:36,090 --> 00:21:37,870 Lieutenant Van Buren made a judgment call. 492 00:21:37,930 --> 00:21:39,840 She made the wrong judgment. 493 00:21:39,890 --> 00:21:42,000 I don't think these kids are innocent. 494 00:21:42,060 --> 00:21:43,670 Little girl killers? 495 00:21:43,730 --> 00:21:46,140 CARMICHAEL: You can't believe it because they wear knee socks and pigtails? 496 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,680 Could have been an accident. 497 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,840 The battery in the boy's mouth, the victim's pants... 498 00:21:51,910 --> 00:21:53,210 Sounds like an adult offender. 499 00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:55,220 You have something beside this confession? 500 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,690 There were salt particles on the victim's hands. 501 00:21:57,750 --> 00:21:59,690 Jenny bought a pretzel right before the murder. 502 00:22:00,180 --> 00:22:02,490 Case is built on salt particles? 503 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:07,230 We have a witness who put Jenny Brandt in the building at the time of the abduction. 504 00:22:07,460 --> 00:22:09,130 Who's the witness? 505 00:22:09,220 --> 00:22:10,900 An eight-year-old. 506 00:22:12,130 --> 00:22:14,470 Detective Green take his statement? 507 00:22:16,260 --> 00:22:20,180 I don't think this Tara Padden is smart enough to pull this off. 508 00:22:21,970 --> 00:22:24,780 Maybe the younger girl pulled the strings. 509 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,440 Gabbie's been babysitting for Jenny since the Brandts moved in, 510 00:22:28,510 --> 00:22:30,320 about five years ago. 511 00:22:31,550 --> 00:22:33,390 Is she hard to take care of? 512 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,220 If you don't do exactly what she wants, she just loses it. 513 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,460 Like, if I'm watching TV and not paying attention to her, 514 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,190 she throws a total fit. 515 00:22:41,260 --> 00:22:43,630 Does she get along with other kids? 516 00:22:43,690 --> 00:22:46,230 She's okay with girls, but I don't think she likes boys too much. 517 00:22:46,290 --> 00:22:47,600 What do you mean? 518 00:22:47,660 --> 00:22:51,440 She once borrowed my 16 Magazine and blacked out all the eyes on the boys. 519 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:53,710 She said she wished they would all just die. 520 00:22:53,770 --> 00:22:55,250 Has she always been like this? 521 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:57,370 She's always getting into fights with boys at school 522 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,150 and it's gotten a lot worse since her father went to jail. 523 00:23:00,210 --> 00:23:02,450 You wouldn't believe what goes on in their apartment though. 524 00:23:02,510 --> 00:23:03,850 Like what? 525 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,050 Her mother tells her all about her boyfriends. 526 00:23:06,110 --> 00:23:08,120 They don't even close the bedroom door. 527 00:23:08,180 --> 00:23:09,530 She knows more about sex than I do. 528 00:23:10,620 --> 00:23:12,660 Does Jenny have any contact with her father? 529 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,600 Jocelyn won't let her see him. 530 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:16,400 I felt bad for her. 531 00:23:17,590 --> 00:23:21,510 Don't tell Jocelyn, but I let Vince talk to Jenny on my phone. 532 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:23,000 And how recently was that? 533 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,610 Last time was a couple of days before the police came. 534 00:23:31,210 --> 00:23:33,190 VINCE: You think my daughter did a murder? 535 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,350 JACK: That's what her friend Tara says. 536 00:23:35,410 --> 00:23:37,690 Well, maybe this other kid's full of crap. 537 00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:39,690 There is corroborating evidence, Mr. Brandt. 538 00:23:39,950 --> 00:23:43,020 She's 10 years old. She can barely ride a bike. 539 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,290 She lured a seven-year-old boy from his apartment. 540 00:23:47,220 --> 00:23:49,460 There was a battery stuffed in his mouth. 541 00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:52,230 A battery? 542 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,800 What if they find her guilty? 543 00:23:57,870 --> 00:23:59,900 You gonna put her in one of those juvie homes? 544 00:23:59,970 --> 00:24:01,810 That's one possibility. 545 00:24:01,870 --> 00:24:03,250 Those places are pretty rough. 546 00:24:03,300 --> 00:24:05,220 CARMICHAEL: It's not as rough as her home environment. 547 00:24:06,310 --> 00:24:09,880 Your wife has sex with her boyfriends while Jenny's in the room. 548 00:24:10,540 --> 00:24:12,420 (WHISPERS) That bitch. 549 00:24:13,510 --> 00:24:15,520 And I'm locked up in there. 550 00:24:15,580 --> 00:24:18,220 Auto theft is a non-violent conviction. 551 00:24:18,620 --> 00:24:21,760 We can have you moved to a facility closer to the city. 552 00:24:21,820 --> 00:24:23,560 There's a possibility of work release. 553 00:24:23,620 --> 00:24:25,230 (SIGHS) Oh, God. 554 00:24:25,490 --> 00:24:27,670 JACK: You know what, Mr. Brandt? 555 00:24:27,730 --> 00:24:29,170 You help us, we'll help her. 556 00:24:29,230 --> 00:24:31,040 I gotta think what to do here. 557 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:32,910 We are not the enemy. 558 00:24:33,530 --> 00:24:36,310 You think we want to slam a 10-year-old child? 559 00:24:39,670 --> 00:24:41,310 (BREATHES DEEPLY) 560 00:24:45,950 --> 00:24:48,550 There's this picture I gotta show you. 561 00:24:49,620 --> 00:24:53,330 JACK: Jenny sent this to her father just before she was arrested. 562 00:24:53,390 --> 00:24:54,990 It's Aaron Polansky. 563 00:24:55,060 --> 00:24:56,730 With batteries around his head. 564 00:24:56,790 --> 00:24:58,930 It's just a child's drawing. 565 00:24:59,060 --> 00:25:01,730 The girl holding the rock, that's Jenny. 566 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,070 It's a pictorial confession. It implicates both girls. 567 00:25:05,130 --> 00:25:06,810 Well, if that's Tara, 568 00:25:06,870 --> 00:25:09,640 she's just standing there, like she said all along. 569 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:11,810 I had a hard time believing it myself. 570 00:25:11,870 --> 00:25:13,820 Now I'm convinced. They're murders. 571 00:25:13,910 --> 00:25:16,790 If you brought us down here to plea bargain, I'm not interested. 572 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,850 Isn't your objective to do what's best for her? 573 00:25:18,910 --> 00:25:22,190 Locking her up with other out-of-control kids is hardly the answer. 574 00:25:22,250 --> 00:25:23,390 I'm fighting the charges. 575 00:25:23,450 --> 00:25:24,950 Easy for you to walk away. You're in juvie court. 576 00:25:25,020 --> 00:25:26,430 My client's facing a life sentence. 577 00:25:26,490 --> 00:25:28,060 She's three years older. Jenny led her by the nose. 578 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,660 Jenny didn't know what she was doing. 579 00:25:30,990 --> 00:25:32,100 Here's my notice. 580 00:25:34,060 --> 00:25:36,270 I'm pleading not responsible. 581 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:39,700 (DOOR OPENING) 582 00:25:44,070 --> 00:25:47,080 Sharkey's conceding Jenny committed the murder. 583 00:25:47,140 --> 00:25:49,450 She's claiming she's mentally ill? 584 00:25:49,510 --> 00:25:52,920 Too young to appreciate the consequences of her actions. 585 00:25:52,980 --> 00:25:55,520 The judge buys it it's a total walk. 586 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,130 Well, maybe there's something to it, Jack. She is 10 years old. 587 00:25:59,220 --> 00:26:00,660 I don't know. 588 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,360 Old enough to rope in an accomplice, and lie to the police. 589 00:26:05,260 --> 00:26:07,870 I'm calling Skoda for a psych work up. 590 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,240 How did you feel when your father left? 591 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:13,800 I didn't care. 592 00:26:14,270 --> 00:26:16,180 It didn't make you sad? 593 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:17,410 Nope. 594 00:26:18,110 --> 00:26:20,180 But you wrote letters to him in jail. You must have missed him? 595 00:26:21,740 --> 00:26:24,150 My mom got a boyfriend right away. 596 00:26:24,910 --> 00:26:26,520 Byron the Beast. 597 00:26:27,110 --> 00:26:29,150 Why did you call him that? 598 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,360 Because he was smelly. 599 00:26:32,550 --> 00:26:34,530 When did you smell him, Jenny? 600 00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:37,670 You know, whenever he came near me. 601 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,730 Did he ever get really close to you? 602 00:26:39,790 --> 00:26:40,830 No. 603 00:26:41,830 --> 00:26:43,400 Did he ever touch you? No. 604 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:46,510 Make sure you write that down. 605 00:26:46,730 --> 00:26:48,610 I saw Byron touch Mom. 606 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,780 They did all kinds of stuff. 607 00:26:53,070 --> 00:26:54,450 I hate him! 608 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,910 Did you want to hurt him? I wanted to. 609 00:26:58,380 --> 00:26:59,980 Byron's too big. 610 00:27:01,420 --> 00:27:03,760 Did you ever think about hurting someone else? 611 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:06,430 Sometimes I think about hurting a little boy. 612 00:27:06,620 --> 00:27:08,030 Hurting how? 613 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:11,760 Hit them over the head and make them cry. 614 00:27:12,060 --> 00:27:15,910 Kill them and leave them with no clothes on so they'll look stupid. 615 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,300 Do you have these thoughts often? 616 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,600 Uh-huh. 617 00:27:20,570 --> 00:27:21,880 Since when? 618 00:27:21,940 --> 00:27:23,780 I don't know. A long time. 619 00:27:25,610 --> 00:27:28,680 Have you tried hurting other things, like a pet? 620 00:27:30,510 --> 00:27:33,860 There was this tabby cat that lived in my building. 621 00:27:34,010 --> 00:27:36,520 It used to like me 'cause I gave it ice cream. 622 00:27:36,980 --> 00:27:38,290 So what happened to it? 623 00:27:38,350 --> 00:27:42,060 I gave him some ice cream, but, I put some cleaning stuff in it, 624 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:44,160 you know like for the floors. 625 00:27:44,220 --> 00:27:47,760 And it like started screaming and choking and everything. 626 00:27:47,830 --> 00:27:49,500 Then it went dead. 627 00:27:49,630 --> 00:27:51,230 It was way cool. 628 00:27:52,170 --> 00:27:54,270 That makes me so angry, Jenny. 629 00:27:54,330 --> 00:27:56,510 How could you do that to a helpless little animal? 630 00:27:56,570 --> 00:27:58,050 I don't know. 631 00:27:58,110 --> 00:28:00,350 Is that how you felt when you hit the little boy? 632 00:28:00,410 --> 00:28:03,250 It wasn't cool or anything like with the cat. 633 00:28:03,310 --> 00:28:05,020 I just hit him with a rock. 634 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,790 He deserved it. He wouldn't stop crying. 635 00:28:16,090 --> 00:28:18,230 When the boy didn't wake up, 636 00:28:18,460 --> 00:28:19,460 what did you think? 637 00:28:19,930 --> 00:28:21,600 I don't know. That he went dead. 638 00:28:21,660 --> 00:28:22,970 That's why I put the battery in his mouth. 639 00:28:23,030 --> 00:28:24,530 To give him some electricity to wake him up, 640 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,810 like they do in the hospitals. 641 00:28:27,940 --> 00:28:30,380 Jenny's been emotionally abused. Maybe physically. 642 00:28:30,770 --> 00:28:33,340 She lashes off when her anger reaches the boiling point. 643 00:28:33,410 --> 00:28:35,050 So we lock this girl up? 644 00:28:35,110 --> 00:28:36,350 Get used to it. 645 00:28:36,410 --> 00:28:38,950 More and more girls committing violent crimes. 646 00:28:39,010 --> 00:28:40,180 I don't see anything for Jenny 647 00:28:40,250 --> 00:28:43,460 except a future of escalating anti-social behavior. 648 00:28:44,650 --> 00:28:46,630 What makes you say that? 649 00:28:46,690 --> 00:28:49,030 Emotional abuse, the snuffed cat, 650 00:28:49,420 --> 00:28:50,870 the blacked-out photographs. 651 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,770 Her lack of response when I went after her. 652 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,130 Her fantasies about hurting little boys. 653 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,640 Yeah, previews of coming attractions. 654 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:01,440 She's graduated to murder. She's not gonna stop. 655 00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:02,880 You sound pretty sure. 656 00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:06,150 Kid's a done deal. She's a textbook serial killer. 657 00:29:06,770 --> 00:29:08,650 We just got her early. 658 00:29:13,180 --> 00:29:15,630 You've read the reports, Ms. Sharkey. 659 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,590 Jenny Brandt is damaged goods. 660 00:29:17,650 --> 00:29:19,030 So what do you want? 661 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,520 Consent to restrictive placement until age 21, 662 00:29:22,590 --> 00:29:23,830 reassess when she's an adult. 663 00:29:24,730 --> 00:29:27,830 I'm sorry. She's too young to just throw in the towel. 664 00:29:27,890 --> 00:29:31,030 She's deeply disturbed. She needs to be kept away from little boys. 665 00:29:31,670 --> 00:29:35,480 We can stipulate Jenny be housed in a facility with psychiatric services. 666 00:29:35,540 --> 00:29:37,710 She can get treatment on the outside. 667 00:29:37,770 --> 00:29:41,150 The best you can get under the Family Court Act is five years, Mr. McCoy. 668 00:29:41,210 --> 00:29:43,450 And I'm not helping you get it. 669 00:29:45,050 --> 00:29:47,290 Five years in a youth facility, 670 00:29:47,650 --> 00:29:49,490 it's not gonna solve the problem. 671 00:29:49,550 --> 00:29:52,290 That's the law, Jack. Our hands are tied. 672 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,970 Not if we can convince Miss Brandt to commit her daughter. 673 00:29:56,020 --> 00:29:57,930 An open-ended psychiatric confinement? 674 00:29:57,990 --> 00:30:01,600 If the system doesn't have a place for this girl, we've got to make one. 675 00:30:01,660 --> 00:30:04,800 So I sign the papers and they put Jenny in a mental hospital? 676 00:30:04,870 --> 00:30:08,180 As long as your application is approved by a pre-certification committee. 677 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,740 And how long does she stay? 678 00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:12,710 Until the doctors think she's no longer a threat. 679 00:30:12,910 --> 00:30:14,250 Well, that could be forever. 680 00:30:14,310 --> 00:30:16,080 Your daughter is a predator, Ms. Brandt. 681 00:30:16,140 --> 00:30:19,020 She needs to be somewhere where she can't hurt other people. 682 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,820 Jenny's all I have. 683 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,060 You did the best you could, but you can't handle her. 684 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,290 (LAUGHS) Go ahead Blame me for this. 685 00:30:25,350 --> 00:30:26,990 We're not blaming anybody. 686 00:30:27,050 --> 00:30:28,290 Your daughter needs help. 687 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,430 I am not putting Jenny in a mental institution. 688 00:30:31,630 --> 00:30:33,000 We're done. 689 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:38,800 Well, that solves my problems with this. 690 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,310 You promised me you would help her. 691 00:30:42,370 --> 00:30:43,580 This is helping her. 692 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,210 You said Jenny'd be in a juvie home, not a nut house. 693 00:30:46,270 --> 00:30:49,080 That was before we knew what we were dealing with. 694 00:30:49,710 --> 00:30:52,210 Look at the people here, Mr. Brandt. 695 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,420 Jenny's on her way. 696 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,930 Are you gonna watch or you gonna help her? 697 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:04,960 (SIGHS) 698 00:31:10,630 --> 00:31:12,470 You two have been on the road? 699 00:31:12,530 --> 00:31:16,610 Peconic Correctional Facility. Vince Brandt signed the commitment papers. 700 00:31:16,670 --> 00:31:18,480 State head-shrinkers 701 00:31:18,570 --> 00:31:21,310 In the past year they released three subway pushers 702 00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:23,880 and a man who dined on his neighbor's liver. 703 00:31:23,940 --> 00:31:25,080 There's no other way. 704 00:31:25,150 --> 00:31:27,680 What about the way the state legislature prescribes? 705 00:31:27,750 --> 00:31:30,390 They never conceived of a Jenny Brandt. 706 00:31:31,820 --> 00:31:34,160 Legal Aid wants her back at home. 707 00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:35,960 I'm not going to let that happen. 708 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,160 I don't want this office coming off inhumane. 709 00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:41,670 Inhumane to whom? To Jenny or to the society on which she wreaks havoc? 710 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,360 What do you got planned for the older girl? Attica? 711 00:31:45,630 --> 00:31:47,440 We cut a deal with the lawyer. 712 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:49,980 She's pleading as a juvenile offender. 713 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,710 We're leaving sentencing up to the judge. 714 00:31:51,940 --> 00:31:53,470 Wonderful. (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 715 00:31:53,540 --> 00:31:56,180 Well, Jenny's lawyer caught wind of it. 716 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,720 She filed a motion to stop the civil commitment. 717 00:31:58,780 --> 00:32:00,320 We'll fight it. 718 00:32:00,450 --> 00:32:03,620 Skoda convinced me, he'll convince Judge Solomon. 719 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,260 Jenny's lawyer has an expert too. 720 00:32:07,150 --> 00:32:09,100 We've retained Elizabeth Olivet. 721 00:32:10,090 --> 00:32:13,070 Wasn't Dr. Olivet formerly affiliated with the D.A.'s office? 722 00:32:13,130 --> 00:32:15,770 And now she's in private practice, specializing in children. 723 00:32:15,830 --> 00:32:18,280 She's examined Jenny and feels that Mr. McCoy's position 724 00:32:18,330 --> 00:32:20,140 is based on a bunch of voodoo psychology. 725 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,870 With all due respect to Dr. Olivet, 726 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:24,420 a parent has a right to commit a mentally ill child. 727 00:32:24,470 --> 00:32:27,610 Except the mother opposes it and there's a family court charge pending. 728 00:32:27,670 --> 00:32:30,780 Aren't you usurping the authority of the Family Court, Mr. McCoy? 729 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,260 If that's a problem, we'll drop the prosecution. 730 00:32:33,310 --> 00:32:34,620 Do you see what's happening here? 731 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,320 Mr. McCoy's short circuiting Jenny's defense by committing her. 732 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,890 I'm trying to protect the public from a killer. 733 00:32:39,950 --> 00:32:41,560 You're making it up as you go along. 734 00:32:41,620 --> 00:32:42,960 JUDGE: You know something, Ms. Sharkey? 735 00:32:43,020 --> 00:32:44,900 We have a 10-year-old killer here. 736 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,840 Mr. McCoy's position has some merit. 737 00:32:46,890 --> 00:32:47,890 Judge... 738 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,270 I want to hear from both your psychologists. 739 00:32:49,330 --> 00:32:52,310 And anyone else who has some insight on this child. 740 00:32:52,370 --> 00:32:55,110 Then I'll rule, on the whole ball of wax. 741 00:32:59,810 --> 00:33:03,340 JACK: After examining Miss Brandt, what's your diagnosis? 742 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,380 The child is a sociopath. 743 00:33:05,710 --> 00:33:07,390 In layman's terms? 744 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:08,960 Enormous anger, 745 00:33:09,020 --> 00:33:11,120 which she directs at other children. 746 00:33:11,180 --> 00:33:13,360 She's desensitized to violence, 747 00:33:13,420 --> 00:33:15,660 lacks empathy with her victims. 748 00:33:16,190 --> 00:33:19,140 Basically, she exists in an emotional vacuum. 749 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,030 Is this condition likely to change? 750 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:23,770 Sure. It'll get worse. 751 00:33:24,130 --> 00:33:27,480 She's already demonstrated a pattern of escalating violent behavior. 752 00:33:27,530 --> 00:33:29,070 There's no reason to think it'll end. 753 00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:32,310 In your opinion, did Jenny comprehend that she was killing this boy? 754 00:33:32,870 --> 00:33:35,950 She's had fantasies about it for at least a year. 755 00:33:36,010 --> 00:33:39,820 And she was perfectly clear to me about killing her neighbor's cat. 756 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,550 I don't see why it would be any mystery to her. 757 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,970 Jenny's never been in therapy, right, Dr. Skoda? 758 00:33:51,730 --> 00:33:53,000 It wouldn't help. 759 00:33:53,060 --> 00:33:54,870 How can you possibly know that? 760 00:33:54,930 --> 00:33:58,270 She shows all the signs of a recidivist violent predator, 761 00:33:58,330 --> 00:33:59,570 torturing small mammals... 762 00:33:59,630 --> 00:34:01,740 Are you trotting out the McDonald's Triad? 763 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,650 These so called predictors have been discredited in over 20 studies. 764 00:34:06,140 --> 00:34:07,780 Okay, forget about predictors. 765 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,820 She's already killed someone. 766 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,580 SHARKEY: And you know, she'll do it again. 767 00:34:11,650 --> 00:34:12,850 DR. SKODA: I know I don't want to take that risk. 768 00:34:13,650 --> 00:34:16,130 If she were my patient, she'd be institutionalized. 769 00:34:16,180 --> 00:34:19,190 So you'd give up on her without even trying to treat her? 770 00:34:19,250 --> 00:34:21,860 I have no problem trying to treat her, 771 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,530 behind bars. 772 00:34:24,420 --> 00:34:27,530 A little dispassionate, don't you think, Doctor? 773 00:34:28,260 --> 00:34:31,300 I'll save my compassion for next kid she kills. 774 00:34:33,700 --> 00:34:36,180 DR. OLIVET: Jenny was in a car accident when she was four. 775 00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:38,550 I ordered some CT scans on her brain. 776 00:34:38,610 --> 00:34:40,380 There's frontal lobe damage. 777 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,220 Studies link this with poor impulse control. 778 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,920 So in your opinion, is the cause of Jenny's violent behavior organic? 779 00:34:46,980 --> 00:34:47,980 In part. 780 00:34:48,050 --> 00:34:50,820 I'm not saying her family problems aren't a factor, 781 00:34:50,980 --> 00:34:54,060 but abuse alone doesn't necessarily cause violence. 782 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,120 SHARKEY: Is she responsible for her actions? 783 00:34:56,190 --> 00:34:58,800 DR. OLIVET: My examination points to identifiable biological 784 00:34:58,860 --> 00:35:02,310 and psychiatric factors which diminish her culpability. 785 00:35:02,830 --> 00:35:05,740 Jenny doesn't process right and wrong the way you and I do. 786 00:35:06,030 --> 00:35:08,440 And her fantasies of harming a child? 787 00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:10,540 Everybody has inappropriate fantasies. 788 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,740 Given time, Jenny's fantasies can be refocused. 789 00:35:13,810 --> 00:35:15,910 So her condition is reversible? 790 00:35:15,980 --> 00:35:17,650 It's worth a shot. 791 00:35:17,980 --> 00:35:20,890 There is no reason to give up on this child. 792 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,960 (WHISPERING INAUDIBLY) 793 00:35:29,990 --> 00:35:33,700 Dr. Olivet, is there any medication for the kind of 794 00:35:33,890 --> 00:35:36,310 frontal lobe damage you described? 795 00:35:36,830 --> 00:35:38,070 Not yet. 796 00:35:38,330 --> 00:35:40,310 Any drugs in FDA trials? 797 00:35:40,630 --> 00:35:44,980 No. And I know all about Dr. Skoda and his penchant for easy chemical fixes. 798 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,040 But there are other therapies. 799 00:35:46,470 --> 00:35:48,980 Talk therapy, behavior modification. 800 00:35:49,210 --> 00:35:50,420 JACK: Do they work? 801 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,350 Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. 802 00:35:52,410 --> 00:35:55,260 And if they don't, Jenny Brandt will kill again? 803 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,920 Nobody knows that, not even Dr. Skoda. 804 00:35:58,150 --> 00:36:00,460 But there are no guarantees, are there? 805 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,060 I'll give you one guarantee, Mr. McCoy. 806 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,760 You lock this child away in an asylum for the criminally insane, 807 00:36:06,830 --> 00:36:10,400 and you're wasting whatever chance you have of fixing her. 808 00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:18,780 Jack, I don't get it. Why are you going after this kid? 809 00:36:19,110 --> 00:36:20,810 She killed a little boy. 810 00:36:20,870 --> 00:36:22,950 I thought you were a victims advocate? 811 00:36:23,010 --> 00:36:26,920 I am. But I don't like to see a colleague who has no clinical expertise in children 812 00:36:26,980 --> 00:36:29,320 trying to put away a 10-year-old. 813 00:36:29,420 --> 00:36:32,520 I think all that expertise has turned you soft, Liz. 814 00:36:32,590 --> 00:36:35,330 Too bad we don't have time for 10 rounds. 815 00:36:38,390 --> 00:36:41,430 Everything was fine with Jenny until Vince went to jail. 816 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:44,810 SHARKEY: When Jenny started to have problems in school, Mrs. Brandt, 817 00:36:45,130 --> 00:36:47,200 did you do anything about it? 818 00:36:47,270 --> 00:36:49,180 Oh, Jenny and I would talk. 819 00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:52,710 She said the boys she hurt were teasing her or something, 820 00:36:52,770 --> 00:36:54,380 so she had to fight back. 821 00:36:55,110 --> 00:36:59,250 I tried to teach her not to be so physical, but I guess it just didn't get through. 822 00:36:59,310 --> 00:37:02,320 Do you realize now that your daughter has a serious problem? 823 00:37:02,380 --> 00:37:04,160 Oh, believe me, I do. 824 00:37:04,850 --> 00:37:07,560 I'm so sorry for the parents of that boy. 825 00:37:08,820 --> 00:37:10,600 If you send Jenny home, Your Honor, 826 00:37:10,660 --> 00:37:13,140 I will do everything I can to help her. 827 00:37:13,660 --> 00:37:15,570 I promise I'll watch her like a hawk. 828 00:37:15,630 --> 00:37:17,840 This will never happen again. 829 00:37:26,070 --> 00:37:28,210 So the point is, Ms. Brandt, 830 00:37:28,910 --> 00:37:31,150 you didn't watch her like a hawk? 831 00:37:31,540 --> 00:37:32,780 I tried. 832 00:37:33,050 --> 00:37:35,250 You said you talked to her when she got in trouble in school, 833 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,590 but did you do anything about it? 834 00:37:38,250 --> 00:37:39,460 Well, I grounded her. 835 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,160 You grounded her. 836 00:37:41,590 --> 00:37:43,230 Well, what else could I do? 837 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,260 Did you consult a therapist? 838 00:37:47,060 --> 00:37:48,060 No. 839 00:37:48,130 --> 00:37:50,010 Did you investigate any intervention programs? 840 00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:52,070 No. 841 00:37:52,170 --> 00:37:55,200 Did you do anything about it when she killed your neighbor's cat? 842 00:37:55,270 --> 00:37:56,770 I didn't know she did that. 843 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,080 Do you have any reason to think 844 00:37:59,770 --> 00:38:02,850 that there's anything you could do to stop her? 845 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:06,150 I don't know. 846 00:38:06,210 --> 00:38:09,590 So Jenny's just out there terrorizing other children? 847 00:38:09,650 --> 00:38:11,630 No, she's not a monster. 848 00:38:12,620 --> 00:38:14,720 Please don't take her away from me. 849 00:38:14,790 --> 00:38:16,860 She's... She's my best friend. 850 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,440 (SOFTLY) Please, don't. 851 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,720 Your Honor, my client is 10 years old. 852 00:38:36,540 --> 00:38:39,050 She has teddy bears on her bedspread 853 00:38:39,210 --> 00:38:42,460 and a Big Bird piggy bank filled with pennies. 854 00:38:43,580 --> 00:38:46,430 And she killed a child. 855 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:51,800 It's so incongruous, it's almost inconceivable. 856 00:38:52,860 --> 00:38:55,600 Dr. Olivet has testified that, because of her age, 857 00:38:55,660 --> 00:38:58,400 and because of the way her brain works, 858 00:38:58,470 --> 00:39:01,970 she simply couldn't appreciate that as she struck Aaron Polansky 859 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,380 with a rock, she was killing him. 860 00:39:04,470 --> 00:39:08,720 Jenny thought she could revive him with a one-and-a-half-volt battery. 861 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,650 It speaks for itself. 862 00:39:12,550 --> 00:39:16,250 Mr. McCoy's position is to ignore the question of responsibility 863 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,830 and brand Jenny Brandt a killer. 864 00:39:18,990 --> 00:39:21,930 She'll never change, we have to put her away. 865 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,060 People change. 866 00:39:26,190 --> 00:39:29,070 If anyone can change, it's a child. 867 00:39:31,430 --> 00:39:33,710 And Dr. Olivet has emphasized 868 00:39:33,770 --> 00:39:37,040 that this will not happen in a state mental hospital. 869 00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:40,480 Mr. McCoy's solution is a solution of last resort. 870 00:39:43,910 --> 00:39:45,120 Please, 871 00:39:46,210 --> 00:39:48,320 don't give up on her, Judge. 872 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,530 Jenny got dealt a lousy hand. 873 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,400 I look at her with pity and regret. 874 00:39:59,890 --> 00:40:02,030 But Jenny Brandt is trouble. 875 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,940 She battered Aaron Polansky's head and stuffed him in a pipe. 876 00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:12,180 Ms. Sharkey wants us to believe that she didn't appreciate what she did. 877 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:13,740 I don't agree. 878 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,940 Jenny daydreams about killing small boys. 879 00:40:17,010 --> 00:40:19,680 She even had atrial run with a cat. 880 00:40:19,810 --> 00:40:23,450 But ultimately what she could or could not appreciate is irrelevant. 881 00:40:24,750 --> 00:40:26,590 Jenny is a loaded gun. 882 00:40:26,650 --> 00:40:28,460 She's a cocked fist with a rock in it. 883 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,630 She needs to be stopped, before she kills again. 884 00:40:35,130 --> 00:40:41,100 Dr. Olivet talks about sending Jenny to a state institution like it's a death sentence. 885 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,180 That turns the world upside down. 886 00:40:44,270 --> 00:40:46,770 Aaron Polansky got a death sentence. 887 00:40:48,210 --> 00:40:49,650 Jenny would get treatment. 888 00:40:49,710 --> 00:40:53,920 Now everybody knows, state psychiatric care could be better. 889 00:40:55,380 --> 00:40:58,360 But letting Jenny get away with murder won't help this girl. 890 00:40:58,420 --> 00:41:00,460 How will she ever appreciate 891 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,560 that her actions have consequences if there are none. 892 00:41:03,620 --> 00:41:05,630 And how many children will she kill, 893 00:41:05,690 --> 00:41:09,160 before the adult criminal Justice System can take over. 894 00:41:09,630 --> 00:41:11,730 Do we have to wait and see? 895 00:41:13,070 --> 00:41:16,540 Ms. Sharkey would like us to cross our fingers and hope, 896 00:41:17,470 --> 00:41:19,710 hope that it won't happen again. 897 00:41:22,180 --> 00:41:24,280 I have my own kind of hope. 898 00:41:24,510 --> 00:41:27,690 I hope the state doctors can find a way to fix this girl. 899 00:41:28,580 --> 00:41:30,890 I hope that it takes six months, 900 00:41:31,450 --> 00:41:33,120 but until they do, 901 00:41:33,250 --> 00:41:36,170 we can't afford Ms. Sharkey's brand of hope. 902 00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:39,360 We need to protect the Aaron Polansky's of this world, 903 00:41:39,430 --> 00:41:41,100 from Jenny Brandt. 904 00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:48,840 Thank you both. 905 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,750 I'll render my decision tomorrow. 906 00:41:53,110 --> 00:41:54,710 We're adjourned. 907 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,350 Sharkey gave a good closing I'd say it's a tossup. 908 00:42:00,110 --> 00:42:02,560 You comfortable with your position? 909 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,320 It's quite a row your hoeing. 910 00:42:06,020 --> 00:42:08,190 You don't think it keeps me up at night? 911 00:42:08,250 --> 00:42:10,230 Nobody twisted your arm. 912 00:42:10,660 --> 00:42:13,800 Would you want this kid loose in your neighborhood? 913 00:42:13,860 --> 00:42:16,600 The public is tired of violent children 914 00:42:16,660 --> 00:42:18,610 being sent to bed without their dessert. 915 00:42:19,570 --> 00:42:21,810 Five countries in the world execute their children. 916 00:42:22,340 --> 00:42:23,780 And we're one of 'em. 917 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,080 Where do we draw the line? 918 00:42:25,140 --> 00:42:28,280 On a case by case basis, like we always do. 919 00:42:28,470 --> 00:42:33,180 Now we condemn this 10-year-old to state psychiatric care. 920 00:42:33,610 --> 00:42:34,680 Yes. 921 00:42:34,780 --> 00:42:37,090 It's the worst possible solution, 922 00:42:37,150 --> 00:42:38,990 except for all the others. 923 00:42:39,090 --> 00:42:40,930 And if Olivet is right? 924 00:42:43,190 --> 00:42:45,330 That's why I'm not sleeping. 925 00:42:48,130 --> 00:42:49,900 JUDGE: What we have before us, 926 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,340 is an angry little girl, 927 00:42:52,830 --> 00:42:56,940 who killed because of some deep turmoil, 928 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,320 no one can adequately explain to me. 929 00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:04,350 But I'm convinced, based on her age, 930 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,620 and psychiatric make-up, 931 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,760 that Jenny did not understand the consequences of her actions. 932 00:43:10,820 --> 00:43:14,230 And if I believe she's not responsible for what she's done, 933 00:43:15,150 --> 00:43:17,460 I can't deny her the chance 934 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,200 to evolve into a healthy young woman. 935 00:43:21,930 --> 00:43:26,270 I must hold out hope that she can be treated, and rehabilitated. 936 00:43:26,330 --> 00:43:30,080 And I don't think that's going to happen in a state hospital. 937 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:35,610 Mr. McCoy's fears about Jenny's future are well founded. 938 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,450 But I won't lock a child away because of a fear, 939 00:43:39,510 --> 00:43:41,960 or a prediction of future behavior. 940 00:43:42,820 --> 00:43:45,920 I'm quashing your commitment papers, Mr. McCoy, 941 00:43:46,220 --> 00:43:48,930 and releasing Jenny to the custody of her mother. 942 00:43:48,990 --> 00:43:52,400 Ms. Brandt, get help for your daughter. 943 00:43:53,260 --> 00:43:57,540 You and I are going to have a standing monthly appointment. 944 00:43:58,100 --> 00:44:00,700 I want to know what's happening with this child. 945 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,080 We're adjourned. 946 00:44:03,140 --> 00:44:04,740 (GAVEL POUNDING) 947 00:44:05,510 --> 00:44:06,610 (JENNY LAUGHS) 948 00:44:09,740 --> 00:44:12,660 Someone should call Aaron Polansky's mother. 949 00:44:13,150 --> 00:44:15,390 I'll call her from the office.