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Bids/Classifieds Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com Tragedy continued from page 14 attitude changed. Parrish started drinking, talking tough and hanging out with gang members. Even though she was now a single mother with a tod- dler Curtis still wanted to take care of Parrish. “I tried to get custody of Parrish many times,” she says. In fall 2009 Curtis learned he had, “pushed a kid off a bicycle” and stolen the bicy- cle. “His attorney called me and said ‘would you be will- ing to take Parrish?” she says. She said she would, and she talked to case work- er Raymond Goss. Curtis says Goss told her she need- ed approval from Parrish’s juvenile counselor, Sylvia Martinez. She says she called about eight times, but got no response. “She would never return my calls, and she would never talk to me, so it never happened.” Curtis once got a call from somebody at juvenile deten- tion center, she says. But she was out of cell phone range at the time. When she did connect with the worker, she learned Parrish was back at home. After that she only heard from him spo- radically. “He would call me every once in a while from a friend’s cell phone just to let me know he was ok. I think he felt defeated. I felt defeated.” Henry Stern, a spokesper- son for Multnomah County juvenile services division, confirmed that Parrish was arrested in fall 2009, shortly after LD’s death. He issued this statement. “This young man started his probation with the coun- ty in November 2009 on charges of theft II and harassment. Between that initial probation contact in November 2009 and March 28, 2011, he was held in juvenile detention six times, five of which were for pro- bation violations. The sixth time—from March 31, 2010 to April 6, 2010—he was detained in the Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Home for possession of a firearm in a public place. While we can confirm that the Juvenile Services Divi- sion was actively working with the family, state law does not allow us to com- ment about specific interventions and contacts in any juvenile’s record. We can say that any time a juve- nile comes before the court in detention, the Juvenile Services Division works with all parties to find the most suitable placement option for that young man or woman, and keeps the court informed.” Curtis and Stone say if Parrish had got the help he needed early on, he would- n’t have been running the streets. And he would never have picked up a gun in the first place. “He had no stability,” Curtis said. “He’s had one emotional upheaval after another. DHS made one mistake after another. “In my heart of hearts I don’t feel Parrish has the capability in his soul of doing this. If he did, it was an accident.” Parrish Bennette entered his bail hearing in ankle chains, June 24. Bail was refused. Reporter Disclosure: The first time I heard of Par- rish Bennette was in 2007, when he and my son were both students at Mt. Tabor Middle School. Parrish and my son got into an argument and my son shoved Parrish. But although I knew his name, I never met Parrish or his father. I first met Made- line Stone and Pat Curtis after Parrish’s arrest in April 2011. In June 2011, I spoke to Parrish’s attorney Thad- deus Betz and his assistant. They said they could not share any information with me. At their request, I passed on contact informa- tion for Stone and Curtis. 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