Warren County Teen Court students swear in to program

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Warren County is one of only 20 in the entire commonwealth to offer kids an opportunity to learn about law in the courtroom, and local students take the first steps towards their future.

At the Justice Center, the future of the courtroom is taking shape with the swearing in of this year’s Teen Court students.

As part of this group, students have the opportunity to learn many things, including learning from other’s mistakes.

“It helps the students to learn to appreciate some of the circumstances that our juveniles are faced with each day and understand the challenges that they have to overcome and to make good recommendations to try to convince that juvenile to make a better decision in the future,” Judge Kim Geoghegan says.

For one student part of Teen Court, he says while he has the speaking part down, the thing he struggles with the most is his sense of empathy.

“Looking at people not just as someone to say if they’re right or wrong, but something to really, you know, think about and almost use your own morality and reflect upon them. So I gained a strong sense of empathy from this, and seeing that as the quote I gave on the floor. A case file may be one sided, but a person is not,” Cayden Dunn, a junior at Bowling Green High School, says.