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Judge brings teens to tears with tough love: 'You're special, you're uniquely made'

''A Superior Court judge in Bibb County, Georgia, has been regularly bringing teens to tears — with a tough but uplifting message. Judge Verda Colvin, part of a voluntary program aimed at helping troubled youth stay in school and find a path toward success, gets kids' attention during monthly talks by placing a prison jumpsuit and a body bag in front of them to indicate where they could end up if they don't change their ways.

What Colvin didn't expect, though, was that her talk would go viral after it was videotaped and placed on the Facebook page of Bibb County Sheriff's Office on March 30. It has since been viewed more than 250,000 times...''

by John Peragine