Bucky: Sentenced to Wiltwyck at age 10
I got sentenced on my 10th birthday, in June of 1973. I'm trying to recall the exact date of the actual incident. I want to look up the story that made the front page of the Daily News and every NYC television channel when it happened. I will write about that soon and what led up to it, but it's another story altogether. I was in the fourth grade at the time, and my two co-defendants were both in the third. The father of one of the kids was a familiar face on local television commercials, and well to do. He painted me as the ringleader, the bad influence, and I guess I was. The other kids were from the west village and we went to school together at P.S. 3 on Hudson street. I would walk to school from the East village each morning, after transferring my old school, P.S.188, on Houston and Avenue D. I transferred schools because I was getting bullied I think. I didn't want to go to P.S.188 anymore, but after I got into P.S. 3 I actually became a bully. Ironic much? I was a...
