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death of innocence
October 11, 2013

Death of Innocence Imagine someone being locked up in a cell for many years convicted for a crime he or she did not commit. This person whom has been locked up for many years up to the rest of their life, in a single cell with nothing to do, has been telling everyone that he or she is innocent of the crime that they were convicted of. Some examples of the top crimes committed are Murder, Assault, and Terrorism. Even though this person was telling everyone this, nobody believed him or her for a long- time, until someone believed that person story. In the case of Caleb Resse it was really hard to believe anything he said. So why was he put away in prison so why don’t people believe him? Caleb was always the neglected child. He was quiet and timid as a young boy. When turned thirteen everything about Caleb changed, he became a delinquent. He was tall and really fit. His brown shaggy hair was always messy; he never seemed to comb it. His eyes were as blue as the clear blue sky. He was very anti-social: he didn’t have friends so he kept to himself all the time. His parents did not pay attention to him at all; they thought working all day and night was a good idea. Caleb was always being neglected by his parents physically and emotionally. He started getting into trouble at school for either fighting or for not listening to the teachers and using bad language. The reasons he would fight at school is because the other kids teased him about the way he was. He didn’t like to talk to the other kids and at lunch he would eat alone by the trash cans. And the kids would bully him so that is when Caleb started to fight back. His parents didn’t seemed like they cared because when this happened they would just go down to the office and apologize to the principle and take Caleb home and that would be it. They acted like if they didn’t even have time for things that involved him. Not even him getting in fights at school. Caleb seemed to show that he didn’t

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