Monday, April 9, 2007

Teen who shot grandparents gets support

Teen who shot grandparents gets support (AP)

Janet Sisk, founder of the Juvenile Justice Foundation of the Carolinas, shows a Free Christopher Pittman pin in Matthews, N.C., Friday, April 6, 2007.  Sisk is an advocate for Christopher Pittman, a South Carolina teen imprisoned for murdering his grandparents when he was 12. Pittman's attorneys unsuccessfully argued the slayings were influenced by the antidepressant Zoloft. A judge sentenced him to 30 years in prison. (AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek).AP - Every week, Janet Sisk rises as early as 5 a.m. and drives nearly 100 miles to spend her Sundays with a teenager who was just 12 when he murdered his grandparents in their sleep.


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