This story was updated on Thursday, March 20 at 2:32 p.m.
Stefanie Stokes didn’t find out about the incident involving her son, Bakari Stokes-Martin, until three days after it happened. Stokes-Martin is accused of stabbing a detention officer at the Fulton County Jail.
“I feel bad for the officer because I begged these people to help my son before this happened, during this time and currently,” she said. “I told them it would get to the point of him either hurting himself or somebody else.”
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