Children of Incarcerated Parents: Helping the Silent Victims


When Katia Dukes was nine, her father was arrested for killing her mother and sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison. As her father was escorted from the courtroom, young Katia became another silent victim — a child with an incarcerated parent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           By Dr. Henrie M. Treadwell

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