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COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- Every week, Janet Sisk rises as early as 5 a.m. and drives nearly 100 miles to spend her Sundays with a teenager who was just 12 when he murdered his grandparents in their sleep.
She planned to spend part of Easter weekend sitting across a table from Christopher Pittman at his maximum-security prison in Columbia. She also made the trek from her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, to spend Christmas Eve with him.
She's not alone -- a half-dozen people drawn to Pittman's case visit him weekly. Another woman has flown from Michigan to see him twice in the past year. Hundreds of others rally around him in other ways: promising to pay for college when he gets out of prison, and campaigning for extra safeguards for arrested juveniles in South Carolina.
To Sisk, director of the Juvenile Justice Foundation, Pittman has become more than the youth who attracted worldwide attention when he blamed the 2001 slayings on Zoloft, the antidepressant he was taking. She now thinks of him as her third son.
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She planned to spend part of Easter weekend sitting across a table from Christopher Pittman at his maximum-security prison in Columbia. She also made the trek from her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, to spend Christmas Eve with him.
She's not alone -- a half-dozen people drawn to Pittman's case visit him weekly. Another woman has flown from Michigan to see him twice in the past year. Hundreds of others rally around him in other ways: promising to pay for college when he gets out of prison, and campaigning for extra safeguards for arrested juveniles in South Carolina.
To Sisk, director of the Juvenile Justice Foundation, Pittman has become more than the youth who attracted worldwide attention when he blamed the 2001 slayings on Zoloft, the antidepressant he was taking. She now thinks of him as her third son.
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