| Things That Hurt, a visual arts exhibit on child abuse by New Haven Police Academy Class VI students. |
| A bible quote, a plastic cast of a fist wielding a belt, a switch inscribed, You'll remember this! Photo: T. Charles Erickson
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Household items of abuse: kitchen spoons and a spatula with a child's face; an iron with a child's bloody handprint; a heating coil and a shelf marked: I'll teach you! Photo: T. Charles Erickson |
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| Things That Hurt creators (left to right) Wilfredo Cruz, Eileen Doktorski (faculty advisor), Lester Blazejowski, Susan Dercole, Matthew Wynn and Shawn Browning Photo: T. Charles Erickson |  |
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 | A frying pan almost obscures a mirror reflecting a baby's face. Photo: T. Charles Erickson |
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| A cast of a fist wielding meat tenderizers. The shelf is marked, You'll be sorry you did that. Photo: T. Charles Erickson |
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 | A handwritten bible quote: Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. Photo: T. Charles Erickson
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| Orion is Not a Hunter, play by New Haven Police Academy Class VI students at the Shubert Performing Arts Center. |
| In Scene III, West Hills Middle School student Nicole Fleming plays an angry youth from the community. Photo: T. Charles Erickson |  |
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 | West Hills Middle School students (left to right) Haylen Frasier, Kira Means and Nicole Fleming display their distrust of the police in Scene III. Photo: T. Charles Erickson |
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| New Haven Police Academy student Ronnell Higgins (right) as the Chief of Police confers with the Training Director, played by Amy Hudak in Scene III. Photo: T. Charles Erickson
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New Haven Police Academy students (in uniform left to right) Thomas Hudak and Max Joyner-Brown approach West Hills Middle School students (left to right) Marquis Frasier, Nicole Fleming, Kira Means and Haylen Frasier on the street in Scene I. Photo: T. Charles Erickson |
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| West Hills Middle School students (left to right) Marquis Frasier, Nicole Fleming, Kira Means and Haylen Frasier challenge the police in their community, played by New Haven Police Academy students (in uniform, left to right) Thomas Hudak and Max Joyner-Brown in Scene I. Photo: T. Charles Erickson |  |
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 | In Scene III Marquis Frasier, a West Hills Middle School student, plays a troubled youth who later reaches out to a police officer. Photo: T. Charles Erickson |
