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Posted on YouTube: February 21, 2011
By YouTube Member: ABCNews
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Posted on DU: February 23, 2011
By DU Member: Segami
Views on DU: 999 | " Her emotional, obscenity-laced outburst last week - caught on video and spread over the Internet - has come to symbolise the anger felt by parents whose children were railroaded by Mark Ciavarella, the former Luzerne County judge convicted Friday of racketeering in a US$2.8 million "kids for cash" plot to send youth offenders to for-profit detention centres.
Fonzo's son was 17 and an all-star wrestler with a chance at a college scholarship when he landed in Ciavarella's courtroom on a minor drug paraphernalia charge. Though the teen, Edward Kenzakoski, had no prior criminal record, he spent months at the private lockups and a wilderness camp and missed his senior year of high school.
Kenzakoski emerged an angry, bitter and depressed young man. He committed suicide last June at the age of 23.
"He was just never the same. He couldn't recover," Fonzo said Tuesday. "He wanted to go on with his life, but he was just hurt. He was affected so deeply, more than anyone knew."
"My kid's not here anymore!" she screamed. "He's dead! Because of him! He ruined my ... life! I'd like him to go to hell and rot there forever! Do you remember me? Do you remember me? Do you remember my son, an all-star wrestler? He's gone. He shot himself in the heart. You scumbag!
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