What Happened After an 11-Year-Old Boy Was Accused of Murdering His Pregnant Soon-To-Be Stepmom

Gail Deutsch, JuJu Chang, Lauren Effron, Alexa Valiente, ABC 20/20 •

“All I remember was they came and got me at 3:00 in the morning,” Jordan Brown said. “[They] put me in the back of the car and they took me to the police barracks. And I was in there. And then they took me straight to the county jail. And I had no idea where we were going. I wasn't with anybody. It was just a bunch of strangers dragging me around.”

About the Expert

Kate Burdick is a Senior Attorney at Juvenile Law Center with over a decade of experience advocating for youth in the justice and child welfare systems. She first started at Juvenile in 2009 as the eighth Sol and Helen Zubrow Fellow in Children's Law, then later served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow (sponsored by Greenberg Traurig, LLP) and Staff Attorney. Between fellowships, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael M. Baylson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.