State takes charge of 3-y-o smoking kid, siblings

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State takes charge of 3-y-o smoking kid, siblings

The court has ordered that four young siblings be admitted into state care after one of them, a three-year-old boy, was videoed smoking a cigarette and purportedly drinking alcohol on the egging of adults. The police located the mother and children...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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