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| With a parent in prison, Arizona children face poverty and instability |
| By cronkitenews.azpbs.org- Logan Newman |
| Published: 12/14/2015 |
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Matthew Rohrbach has no children of his own, just his wife and a 170-pound Great Dane named Loki. Instead, he has he has been involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona and is matched with 15-year-old Mick — whose father is in prison. Mick is among at least 176,000 Arizona children and teens that have a parent serving sentences behind bars, according to the Tucson-based KARE Family Center, which help relatives cope with caring for children whose parents are imprisoned. When he was three years old, his father was arrested for manufacturing and selling methamphetamine, along with charges of reckless child abuse related to his drug crimes, according to court reports. “Multiple times so far, he’s told me how his dad was going to get an appeal hearing and potentially get out early,” the 38-year-old Rohrbach said. “As far as I know, the guy doesn’t stand a chance of getting out before Mick turns 21.” Read More. |
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