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By Nicholas M. Horrock
Rappahannock News Staff Writer *
The might of Virginia’s law enforcement will try next week to scare the parents arid children of Rappahannock County into controlling underage drinking and halting the injuries and deaths it causes.
School and law enforcement officials will conduct two briefings at Rappahannock County High School on the eve of the school’s annual spring prom, a dance that across Virginia is often accompanied by drinking and deadly driving.
Though the State Police and other agencies run these programs statewide, in the wake of Dylan Corbin’s death last Dec. 30, the program has special meaning in Rappahannock.
State Police First Sergeant James Edward Murphy said officials will detail how the state can use paid teenage informants to infiltrate parties where children are given liquor or “set up” unscrupulous merchants who sell liquor to minors.
They will describe the powers of the grand jury to grant immunity to children to testify against others and the personal costs of being convicted of loaning identity cards to young-, sters or carrying a fake identification.
“A lot of parents think this is, ‘my house, my kid, I can give him alcohol,’” Murphy said. “Wrong. It is a crime and the parents are responsible.
“That’s what zero tolerant? means.”
High School Principal Roger Mello said school officials are making a special effort to make the prom safe on
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