Los Angeles County (Lancaster)
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LANCASTER - Referee Valerie Skeba remembers the names, if not the faces. They're kids she saw in dependency hearings in her Antelope Valley courtroom a decade or more ago. Now adults, they're repeating the cycle of drugs and domestic violence that brought their parents to her attention.
"And it's bad domestic violence - broken bones, serious stuff," said Skeba, who left nursing to go into law... (continued)
