Ms Valerie McAllorum Ryan:

In the case of serious to very serious cases like mine, it should be offered. I would definitely have been agreeable to restorative justice. I never heard of the bail supervision scheme. I cannot get over the fact that it has such good outcomes, yet it is not available all over the country. I do not have a law degree so I did not come across it in the little bit of research I did. I am kind of shocked at that. I would be open to those options. Those three together - a mixture of restorative justice, the bail supervision scheme and the supervised detention orders – would close a huge gap, giving the victims the feeling that they have been seen and heard while the juvenile who needs to be treated differently to an adult is not overly punished.