A Haven For Children At Court

THE door of the child care center is decorated with Winnie-the-Pooh stickers and pictures of snowflakes and Santa. But it also has an unusual sign: “Litigants’ Children Only. The Children’s Center is Unable to Accommodate Jurors’ Children.”

Inside the spacious room, on the second floor of the Westchester County Courthouse, a 6-year-old named Jason was sitting apart from the other children, arms crossed, eyes downcast. Mercedes Robles, the children’s center director, gently approached him.

“Jason, I want to show you something,” she said, leading him to a gray plastic castle. Soon the boy was involved in play, making two action figures fly off the castle roof and battle each other in the air.

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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/30colwe.html