How Toronto’s new courthouse could jeopardize fragile youth services

By Sara Fruchtman ( June 29, 2018, 12:08 PM EDT) -- Justice Brian Scully sits in the Ontario Court of Justice at 311 Jarvis St. in Toronto. In 2005, he was presiding over the case of Tina, (not her real name), a 15-year-old who charged with robbery. Her boyfriend had persuaded her to lure a young man into an alleyway. When she did, the boyfriend beat and robbed the victim. As Tina stood up to make her plea, Justice Scully noticed that she was pregnant....

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