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    The Florida Bar Foundation > News and Publications > Stories of Justice

Stories of Justice

  • Foundation’s early investments in the fight against human trafficking continue to pay dividends

    Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2014

    When her labor pains started, Jacinta Moreno, 15, pleaded to be taken to a hospital to have her baby, but the man who had forced her into labor in a Ft. Pierce, Fla., orange grove would not allow it. “He said to me, ‘You can’t go to a hospital, because

  • Foundation grantees stepping up to help children fleeing violence in Central America

    Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2014

      Even though their mother had already died in the Arizona desert on her way north from their native Honduras, Angie, 17, and Oscar, 12, decided their odds of survival would be better if they followed her path than if they stayed at home, where they were under constant threat

  • Support of Bar members critical to success of children’s projects

    Posted by Jessica Brown on August 1, 2014

      In spite of having a 3.7 high school GPA, serving as an ROTC Brigade Commander and having been selected for a highly competitive statewide youth leadership program, Trenton Miller says he’d never considered college until a volunteer lawyer showed him his options. “I was just going to go into

  • Batchelor Foundation gift supports Miami Law’s advocacy for foster youth

    Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2014

    Freshman class president at Miami’s Design & Architecture High School, one of the nation’s best magnet schools, Stephanie Davis had ambitions of attending a top arts school and a father intent on helping her achieve her dream. But as she was getting ready to start her junior year, Davis, who

  • Innocence Project of Florida achieves its 14th exoneration

    Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2014

    Cheydrick Britt goes free after more than nine years of wrongful imprisonment When the State Attorney’s Office for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit dropped all charges against Cheydrick Britt Nov. 20, he became the 14th Floridian freed as a result of DNA evidence through the work of the Innocence Project of

  • Florida foster youth shine at the Capitol

    Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2013

    The abuse Manushka Gilet suffered from the age of 12 at the hands of her stepfather did not stop her from engaging in a wide range of school-sponsored activities as a teenager; it took the laws then governing the foster-care system to do that. “I’m a very active child. I

  • Protecting the legal rights of Florida’s migrant farmworkers

    Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2013

    Pedro Hernandez Perez, 51, has had his wallet stolen twice once from a migrant farmworker boarding house and the second time on a bus. “They took my money and my documents and left me without anything,” Perez said. Each time he was robbed Perez had to apply for replacement of

  • Children’s legal services projects in dire need of funding

    Posted by Jessica Brown on August 7, 2013

    A single mother waiting tables in Daytona Beach, Michelle Gonska rarely saw two days go by without getting a call from her first-grader’s school about his behavior. “I was trying to work, and the school was calling me every other day because they could not handle him,” she said. “I

  • Elizabeth Guzman and Ericka Garcia: The warrior and the soldier

    Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2013

    At 4 feet 9 inches tall and 85 pounds, Elizabeth Guzman is dead serious when she calls herself a warrior. “God only gives us what we can bear,” she said. “I wish I weren’t so strong.” The 40-year-old cancer survivor is not referring to her ongoing life-or-death battle with disease.

  • After losing her life savings, Miami woman gets a fresh start

    Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2013

    On the verge of 75, Caroline Pennington found herself starting all over again. After a lifetime of hard work and solo parenting, the former marketing executive was looking forward to a comfortable retirement until she fell victim to an investment scam that wiped out her half-million-dollar nest egg. “It was

  • Florida Bar Foundation-funded Equal Justice Works project helps break the cycle of dependency

    Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2012

    Amanda Alvarez, 18, comes across as that recent high school grad who racked up a long list of achievements. She has the poise, diction and vocabulary of a student council president. With her long, dark hair, tasteful makeup and neat-as-a-pin pencil skirt, she has the grace and style of a

  • Federal judge orders state of Florida to cover applied behavioral analysis therapy for autism

    Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2012

    At 18 months of age, Karls Gonzalez seemed like any other happy toddler. He would return his mother’s smile, had a budding vocabulary that included words like “mama,” “papa,” and “cookies” and had developed a healthy appetite for solid food. But by the time he turned 2, he had become

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