Monday, March 5, 2012

Warnings of tragedy were there but ignored

Some 14-year-old boys look like men. Check out a sophomorefootball game between Deerfield and New Trier high schools, or asophomore basketball game between King and Manley, and you'll see14-year-old boys who are over 6 feet tall and weigh more than 200pounds. Some probably shave every day.

Konerak Sinthasomphone was not such a 14-year-old. He was awispy 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighed slightly more than 100 pounds.Konarek looked more like a Little Leaguer than a man of legal age.

But three Milwaukee police officers didn't see it that way.After responding to a 911 call at 2 a.m. on May 27 from a neighborwho reported seeing a "naked . . . bruised up . . . beaten …

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