Perhaps this will be a good ending for Djinn, he has suffered more than any child should ever have to endure as a child".
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Teen arsonist Djinn Buckingham will be back in court
January 08, 2008 11:03 AM
STROUDSBURG —
A Monroe County Court review hearing will be held Wednesday, Jan. 16, to determine if a juvenile arsonist-killer should remain at the detention-treatment facility where he’s currently placed. Djinn Buckingham, 15, was found delinquent in county juvenile court of setting a December 2005 fire that killed his 11-year-old cousin in their Polk Township home. Buckingham in July 2006 was placed at Cornell Abraxas in South Mountain. Cornell Abraxas is a secure detention-treatment center geared to focus specifically on Buckingham’s emotional issues that led to his fire-setting behavior.
The judge, along with prosecuting and defense attorneys, will receive a report from Cornell Abraxas on the status of Buckingham’s treatment. At the end of the review hearing, depending on the report and any testimony presented, the judge could decide to leave Buckingham at that facility, place him in a less restrictive program or return him home to his family. All or part of the hearing, depending on whether confidential testimony is involved, might be closed to the public and press.
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1 comments:
No good outcome in this case-only more pain heaped upon pain for him. Djinn has made some progress according to the psychiatrist- but at what cost? I have been deeply involved with this case for quite some time and have seen much more and have been allowed much more access to things than the public knows and has seen in the media.
This Secure treatment facility where Djinn is at is abusing Djinn, yet our pleas and screams fall on deaf ears. He has been molested and injured on several occasions by restraining techniques-he's scared, in pain and wounded. If what is happening to him was going on in a private home-the child would be removed from that home in a second for abuse-yet it's happening everyday at this facility. We are screaming bloody murder about it-yet everything we say and do is falling on deaf ears and no one has come to our aid to help us and render aid to Djinn. Djinn has already been subjected to much more than a normal child could handle-yet he continues to o through it every day, his face is showing the pain his soul is weighted down. Now on top of all this they want to terminate his mother;s rights to him-which is causing Djinn much more turmoil. How much more can they put him through? I care deeply about Djinn and I will fight for him until,the day this case is over for good-I will continue to keep his name in the news and hope that someone will come and help us to help him and get him some peace.
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