. >> for 26 years lake county juvenile judge mary beth bonaventura has been making tough decisions that aim to get kids like aaron back on track. >> they're coming back into the community. i want to do everything i can do first before i send them to the dlc or department of corrections. >> because of aaron's age, his long history with the juvenile system, and the fact that he's still on probation for attempted car theft and battery, the stakes are much higher this time. aaron has already been warned that the prosecutor's office is looking at waiving him to the adult system. >> i've got a bad record. so i'll probably beg please don't let take my life away from me. to me that's taking my life away. that will be three adult felons instead of just one. i have three pending. >> aaron admits he has an unquenchable thirst for taking cars that aren't his own. his other vice, playing escape artist. >> my staff called me to let me know that he was trying to be a trickster and had a detention officer bring him up sunday night for the release for the weekenders. and our intake officer elizabeth not

mary beth graduated from the u.s. naval academy in 1999 and was commissioned in the marine corps preachy separators including the deployment to iraq as company commander during the 2003 invasion as a combat engineer. after transitioning from active duty mary beth helped develop and market counter ied robot. she's currently executive director for the southeast region of the mission continues than a student of policy management at georgetown university. this is a great panel and i will start by turning to dr. dr. bruggeman and ask her to replace me at the podium. tell me about the question that lends its name to the panel. what did you find is here researching on the band of brothers and what does it mean for combat? >> okay, thank you. i'm the outsider in the room. i am a researcher and i spent the last several years looking up the topic of women in combat because i started my research in sierra leone interviewed women who participated in the calm lake to their peer but with interesting effect on some of the arguments.

at the tennessee prison for women, we found that meeting personal needs had led to a dilemma for mary beth>> they done wrote me up. >> what? >> what for? >> look, it says that they found a glove in two trash cans and a tampon. they're trying to say i had -- >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though she's allowed to have the individual items she was caught with, she was written up for how they were assembled, or at least partially assembled. >> i'm pleading not guilty because they have no evidence. when they found it, it was not intact, okay? >> what was you going to do with it? >> everything that they have is things that i was allowed to have. >> but she did tell us that if she were going to make what she's accused of making, she has a good idea of how to do it. >> you have to have your marker to make it hard and you have to put your pads over it to protect it. >> as mary beth began her how-to description, all i could think about is human nature and how when left without normal resources, want or need or desire will lead you to create something out of nothing.

i'd like to echo mary beth in this. it's that one person who mattered, who was willing to fight for me. so we took it up to the inspector general and finally my branch released me to do this mission. i had just graduated from the pashtu language course right before going to cst selection and it was almost like i finally had a purpose. the military wasn't just being in the military, following everybody. now i was able to be a pioneer in a program that hadn't started yet. i think actually the first group of girls were going through training as we were filling out our packets. so it's this brand new concept of putting them on these teams and training us and being able to go and fight in the front lines. and to me it was exciting. when we finally got out to afghanistan, it was this whirlwind of everything i thought it would be and also everything i thought it wouldn't be. >> tell me more about what you thought it wouldn't be. >> well, you don't really know. there was a lot of gray area, going through training. we were told

judge mary beth bonaventura will make the decision. >> there's two reasons why you order a child detained whether he's a danger to himself or others or there's an unlikelihood that he'll come back to court for the second hearing. so if you make the decision that they are a danger, you detain them, and if you find that they're not a danger then you release them to the parent. >> brown. >> right now, i feel like i'm going to go home. like my probation officer for how good i been doing since i been home from boy's school. so i may go home today. hopefully. >> you ready, your honor? right this way, rodrick. stay to your left, young man. go stand next to your attorney. >> y'all supposed to be helping me. it ain't nobody helping me. nobody. for today. >> 17-year-old morris is locked up for possession of marijuana and more importantly for failing to appear at a prior court hearing. >> today's hearing the court is going to want to hear a little bit about what happened. and make a decision whether or not to release you today. what do you want to have happen. >> i want to get released. >> okay. did

we're joined by mary beth. i should have asked you how to pronounce your last name. >> you got it. >> graduated in 1999 and commissioned to the marine corps corps. she had a deployment to iraq. she was combat arms. is a combat engineer. after trang sigssitioning from activek duty she developed robots to marines. she's the executive director for the mission continues. this is a great panel. i'm going to start it by turning to dr. mckenzie and asking her to replace me at the podium. what did you find as you were researching the book on the question of band of brothers, and what does it mean for the combat integration? >> thank you. i am the out cider. i'm a researcher and spent years researching the topic of women in combat. i started by research in sierra leone. what was interesting is i found some of the arguments, so there was a high percentage of women who par tas pateticipated in the conflict. even though i present women said they weren't really soldiers. they were just following. i found some of the argumen