Today, I had the thrill and the privilege to attend the graduation ceremony of a woman who I first met in my courtroom. She had truly hit bottom, was in jail and had her child removed. Five years later, she is parenting her daughter, she has received her bachelor’s degree and is applying to graduate school. She graduated with honors with one of the highest GPA’s in her class. What a thrill, and one more example of why we can never give up on people! Although successes like hers may not be frequent, I saw it happen more than once, and it easily sustained me while doing child abuse and neglect court.

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