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| 17 Year Olds Charged As Adults |
| By madison.com |
| Published: 04/13/2010 |
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In 2007, Ben Wehr of New Berlin was a typical high school student. A wrestler, football player, all-around good kid. Things began to go haywire with the loss of his dad, who died in a plane crash. He became unstable. He began to make poor decisions. A month after his 17th birthday and five months after his father’s death, he and a 16-year-old friend broke into several unlocked cars. He was convicted of three misdemeanors and sentenced to 90 days in jail, where older inmates taught him the ropes. “He learned all about new drugs and new criminal activities,” his mom, Mary Harpster, told the Assembly Committee on Corrections and the Courts this month as it weighed a bill that would treat 17-year-old offenders as juveniles, rather than adults. When Wehr got out of jail, he was a changed person. He went on to commit more thefts. While in a jail work-release facility he became a heroin addict. He got to leave jail every day, ostensibly to work, but in reality he was selling drugs to fund his habit and to pay for work-release privileges. A year ago he nearly died from an overdose in the jail parking lot. Read More. |
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