The stories flicker onto the screen with numbing repetition. In Chicago, two boys—one 12, one 13 — are sentenced to prison after dropping a 5-year-old out of a 14th-story window because he wouldn't steal candy for them. In New York, two teenage boys and a young woman lock up a 13-year-old girl, repeatedly rape and torture her, then hang her up in a closet by her heels before she manages to escape. In a Los Angeles school, a fifth-grade teacher is hit by a stray bullet during a shoot-out between rival gangs. America, the winter of 1996.
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