Delhi Press 10/16/19

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DELHI PRESS

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‘I am still strong’: Tracie Hunter out of jail Cameron Knight Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

After 75 days in jail, former juvenile court judge Tracie Hunter walked from her cell into a crowd of supporters Saturday, Oct. 5. About 40 people began gathering before 4:30 a.m. to support Hunter. Many wore shirts emblazoned with her name. Others held banners calling for her exoneration. One sign proclaimed she was innocent, a “history maker and a trailblazer.” After years of court battles, Hunter was ordered to serve six months in jail in July. She was convicted of a felony charge related to giving confi dential documents to her brother, a juvenile court employee who was in the process of being fi red. She has always maintained her innocence. Hunter was able to leave jail before six months because the Hamilton County Sheriff ’s Offi ce said she completed a court-authorized work detail program ministering to her fellow inmates. Hunter received three days of credit for every day served. When Hunter walked over from the door of the Hamilton County Justice Center, she was swarmed by supporters. Ebony Singley has had a lifetime of difficulties, including mental illness and abuse. PROVIDED/VICTORIA CURTIS

What is next for woman shot in the leg by police? Cameron Knight Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Ebony Singley has shown up twice in the newspaper. First in 1996 when she was 3 and, in a shocking act of child abuse, her mother placed her in a scalding bath. And again this year, when she was shot by a Cincinnati police offi cer after threatening to kill a grandmother and fi ve children. Ebony is now 26, jailed at the Hamilton County Justice Center and, by many accounts including her own, mentally ill. She was shot when she tried to charge into a house with a knife in July. A woman was inside along with fi ve children. When offi cers arrived, the woman opened the door and Ebony tried to get in.

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Before she could harm anyone, an offi cer fi red a round into her leg. “I said I’m going to kill everyone in the house and then I’m going to kill myself,” Ebony told The Enquirer from jail. “I was not myself.” But who is she when she is herself? There is little question that what happened to her when she was very young helped to shape her. And despite having been surrounded her entire life by the system that was designed to help her – Job & Family Services, Developmental Disabilities Services, social workers, judges, police – none of it has seemed to take. At just 26, she has, by her own account, been diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar disorder and See SINGLEY, Page 2A

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Former juvenile court judge Tracie Hunter leaves the Hamilton County Justice Center in downtown Cincinnati on Oct. 5. Hunter served 75 days in jail. MEG VOGEL/THE ENQUIRER

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