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Why Philly is holding kids on $500,000 bail

Though he had no record, and was 15 years old, he was charged in adult court. Bail was set at $75,000. The required 10 percent of that, $7,500, was more than the teen or his mother could fathom.

Eugene Lee, 16, at home in Frankford with his mother, Wylicia Clark, spent three months in jail
for an attempted robbery with a BB gun — which he was not wielding.
Eugene Lee, 16, at home in Frankford with his mother, Wylicia Clark, spent three months in jail for an attempted robbery with a BB gun — which he was not wielding.Read moreCLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer