Happier times: Marti, daughter Sophia, and John at Sophia’s graduation in 2010.
(7-29-19) Thank you Marti for sharing your family’s story.
OUR SON JOHN DESERVED BETTER AND SO DID OUR FAMILY
By Marti Cockrell
John was not a criminal.
John should have never been in the criminal justice system. He never did anything deliberately criminal.
When he was young, he was mischievous and fun-loving, and got involved with some friends who together got into different kinds of trouble, but nothing serious.
When John was in school, he started smoking cigarettes and using some street drugs, pretty early in his teens, but the counselors in school told me they didn’t have time to help John, because they were overloaded with kids who were on ‘hard drugs’. We live in Tarrant County, Texas.