Newton Falls boy pushes for a new Bill of Rights

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Brock DeAngelo holds up a copy of the "Congressional Record" of the Childen's Bill of Rights"

NEWTON FALLS — Ask most 13-year-old boys about their top interests and they’re likely to say video games, sports and perhaps girls.

Ask Brock DeAngelo, an eighth-grader at St. Mary and St. Joseph School in Newton Falls, about his biggest passion and the answer is likely to be “none of the above.” Instead, he has focused on a far more serious topic: abused children and those involved in custody cases who, he believes, do not get the respect they deserve.

“I don’t think the courts take [children’s] views into full consideration as they would with an adult,” he said.

Brock, a straight-A pupil with “a mind like a sponge” according to his mother, Jennifer Hornyak, has decided to do something about it. He wants the Ohio Legislature to approve a Children’s Bill of Rights.

“Who better than a kid who went through it himself,” Brock said.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator and on vindy.com