Minford, Ohio -- Thursday, May 16, 2019
Chris Hampton, 14, at left, Alex Hampton, 12, and their mother Shandy Brown go for a walk near Hampton's grandmother's home outside of Minford, Ohio.
In 2016, Chris Hampton told his guidance counsellor about his mother's boyfriend's emotional and physical abuse. Hampton, his brother Alex Hampton and his mother Shandy Brown, a drug addict at the time, were living in a barn outside of Lucasville, Ohio, where Brown's boyfriend cooked meth.
CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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