Lifestories: Families in Crisis, A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story
Season 1, Episode 7
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This special recreates the events that drove a popular high-school senior to suicide. Robert Bierer retells the events leading up to the suicide of his best friend, Dale King, and recalls the warning signs that no one heeded until it was too late.
Public Law 106: The Becky Bell StoryWhen Indiana teen Becky Bell became pregnant, she was afraid to tell her parents. Her state's parental consent law kept her from getting a legal abortion without their consent. Desperate, she got an illegal abortion -- with tragic consequences.
Gunplay: The Last Day in the Life of Brian DarlingIt was a typical day for 10-year-old Brian: school, games and watching TV ... until he and a friend played with a real gun. This HBO original drama tells the tragic story of a boy who was accidentally killed by a loaded handgun.
Blood Brothers: The Joey DiPaolo StoryThis is a story of a courageous, 11-year-old Brooklyn boy who stood up to tell the world he had the AIDS virus -- and of the people who stood by him in the face of community prejudice.
No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner StoryThis dramatisation tells of a co-ed's decision to bring charges against a classmate who raped her on their first date -- despite lack of circumstantial evidence and despite her own naiveté in assuming he could be trusted in the first place.
Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell StoryKevin Tunnell, 17, hits and kills Maggie Glendon, 18. He leaves a party drunk without listening to his friends. The incident will scar him for life.
A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire StoryWhat should an 11-year-old boy do when one of the people he trusts the most -- a Catholic priest -- sexually abuses him? This fact-based drama is the story of Calvin Mire, an innocent altar boy whose dream of serving God turns into a nightmare.
Confronting Brandon: The Intervention of an AddictThis is the story of Brandon Clifton, whose friends enlist a professional counselor to help him face his drinking problem.
P.O.W.E.R.: The Eddie Matos StoryFor inner-city youth Eddie Matos, selling drugs was a ticket to money, popularity and power. It was also a ticket to disaster. This drama tells Eddie's story, showing how social pressures made him choose life on the wrong side of the law.
Someone Had to Be BennyBenny Agrello is 15 years old, and his body is rejecting his recently transplanted liver.
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- What should an 11-year-old boy do when one of the people he trusts the most -- a Catholic priest -- sexually abuses him? This fact-based drama is the story of Calvin Mire, an innocent altar boy whose dream of serving God turns into a nightmare.
- GenreDrama
- Seasons1
- StudioHBOMax