For three days, Susan and Anthony Provenzino sat grim-faced in the paneled courtroom of St. Clair Shores, Michigan, their emotions ricocheting between anger, bewilderment and remorse as they pleaded for understanding. Pressed by city attorney Robert Ihrie to explain why they had supported the release of their son Alex, 16, from juvenile custody last summer, even though he had committed several burglaries and attacked his father with a golf club, Susan snapped, "I didn't want him in a youth home with murderers and rapists." Had she sought counseling for Alex? "I couldn't force him to go," Susan said. "I tried to...
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