Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Marie Walls met with participants of this year’s Suffolk Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Citizens Academy on Tuesday to explain how child abuse and child sex crimes are prosecuted. Participants in the seventh annual academy have been meeting twice a week to learn the mission, policies and day-to-day operations of the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, along with the city’s other constitutional offices. Speakers have met with these citizens to talk about general crimes, general district court and drug cases and victim and witness services since the academy started this year. Walls spoke in the third-floor jury room at the Godwin Courts Building on North Main Street. As part of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations team, she dove into local cases to explore how justice is delivered in these extreme cases.

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