The continuing saga of the 14 year old Australian boy caught buying marijuana on Kuta Beach in Bali is turning into a media circus. Two television channels were involved in a bidding war but Channel 9 has signed an exclusive contract with his parents for an undisclosed amount.
On Friday the boy broke down in court and tearfully begged the judge to set him free. The court heard how the boy’s parents knew he had a drug problem and took him to Bali to get him away from marijuana. But that doesn’t explain why they allowed their son to wander the streets with his teenage friend alone, without supervision. His father told the court it was peer pressure that drove his son to smoke it and once he started, he couldn’t stop.
His fate will be decided later this week.
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