In late September, Torri was driving down the highway with her 11-year-old son Junior in the back seat when her phone started ringing. It was the Hamilton County Sheriff’s deputy who worked at Junior’s middle school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Deputy Arthur Richardson asked Torri where she was. She told him she was on the way to a family birthday dinner at LongHorn Steakhouse. “He said, ‘Is Junior with you?’” Torri recalled. Earlier that day, Junior had been accused by other studen...
