By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer ORANGE - The case was a heartbreaker. The girl was 14 when she jumped from a freeway overpass. Little by little, she began to mend, Commissioner Duane T. Neary recalled. But a lifelong cycle of abuse and neglect haunted her. She would bounce back emotionally, only to relapse again, Neary said. One day, she hanged herself at a treatment facility. She was 16. "Those are the tough... (continued)
Daily Journal Staff Writer ORANGE - The case was a heartbreaker. The girl was 14 when she jumped from a freeway overpass. Little by little, she began to mend, Commissioner Duane T. Neary recalled. But a lifelong cycle of abuse and neglect haunted her. She would bounce back emotionally, only to relapse again, Neary said. One day, she hanged herself at a treatment facility. She was 16. "Those are the tough... (continued)
