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Archive Home > 2003 > July > 13 > The hidden victims of crime

The hidden victims of crime

Children of convicts are more likely to struggle with crime and drugs, but researchers hope early intervention will help keep these kids out of prison

By Lisa Rosetta / The Bulletin
July 13, 2003

WILSONVILLE - Kristy Stein remembers watching her parents hover over lines of cocaine as a child. When she was 12 years old, she joined them.

By 17, Stein had run away from home, shoplifted and gotten pregnant twice - the first resulted in a miscarriage, the second, the birth of her oldest....

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