Source: (2000) VORP News 18 (December): 1.
This mediation story involves an incidence of vandalism at an elementary school. The vandalism had been committed by a teenage boy and a teenage girl (the girl had gone to that school when she was younger). The article summarizes the meeting that took place for mediation between the girl and school personnel, the acceptance of responsibility and expression of remorse by the girl, the service determined to repair the damage, and the repair of relationships between the girl and people in the school.
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