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CORIE
16, ADELAIDE, SA
Corie’s quickly making
a name for himself as a
troublemaker.
“I’m always up for some mischief, wherever
I go,” Corie says. “Most of the time I live by
my own rules.”
His mum Elizabeth, who’s twice reported
him as a missing person, says, “In the last
year the police have rung four or five times
asking me to pick him up.”
Corie’s list of “hobbies” reads more like a
juvenile delinquent’s wrap sheet: “Stealing
things, smoking bongs, drinking,
and getting chicks.”
He’s been caught once for shoplifting, but
this hasn’t stopped him. It’s got to the point
where his mother can’t trust him, “Corie
takes money from me,” Elizabeth says, “I
take my handbag with me wherever I go.”
Corie’s dad left when he was just two and his
mother has raised him alone. “I’m trying to
be both mother and father, which is difficult
at times,” his mum says. “I think Corie would
like to see his dad, and be with him more, but
he finds it difficult because he is resentful,
about not seeing him when he was little.”
Corie’s behaviour has been getting more and
more out of control. “I noticed a big change
in Corie when he started high school,”
Elizabeth says. “He got new friends and new
influences and he started thinking, ‘This is
great. I’m going to be a bad boy’. He doesn’t
go to school. He quit his job because it was
in the way of his social life. He drinks and
smokes. He lies to me.”
Recently Elizabeth received a call in the
middle of the night to say that Corie was in
hospital after overdosing on drugs. “I was
really, really upset. You don’t want your kids
to go through that. I worry about where it’s
going to stop.”
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