Content warning: This story contains descriptions of self-harm.
Cedric Lacey relied on a camera to check on his kids while he was working as a commercial van driver going to and back from Alabama. Each morning, he would tune into the feed of his living room to make sure his teenage son, Amaurie, and his 14-year-old daughter were packing up their bags and getting ready to leave for school. But one morning last June, Lacey didn’t see Amaurie up and about. Concerned, he called home, only to find out that his 17-year-old had hanged himself.
It was Amaurie’s younger sister who discovered the body. She was also the one who was
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