Young murderers share profile of hardship: A deadly mix of poverty & peer pressure

Philadelphia Daily News, by Dana DiFilippo Posted By: JoniTx- Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:35:13 GMT By most accounts, Marquis Moses was a deeply troubled teen.He used marijuana. He skipped school so many times and got so many flunking grades that he had to repeat the 11th grade. By age 17, he'd already been arrested twice as a juvenile ' once for assault and once for drug possession. And he lived on a seedy North Philadelphia block with a single mother who, he has said, frequently beat him and called him names. No one foresaw

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