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I was kind of, like, scared, because i didn't know where i was -- where my body was going to be and everything. >> 12-year-old paul gingerich is one of the youngest kids in indiana history to be sentenced as an adult. paul was a friend of colt lundy when the two boys fired four shots, killing colt's stepdad in his northern indiana home. paul was sentenced to 25 years in the wabash youth unit, but due to his age and size, officials made a bold decision and placed the seventh grader at pendleton juvenile facility, a maximum security prison which only houses juveniles. >> he's not our first murde...

Lundy is serving a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of his stepdad. >> like afterwards, i couldn't even believe myself like what happened. how could i possibly be in this situation? you know, i went from a's and b's students to in jail. i didn't even know what to think at the time. every day i just think if i just would have, you know, like just done one thing different. i mean it's a waste of time to do that because you can't. once it's done, it's done. there is no going back. >> lundy's 12-year-old friend paul gingerich was sentenced...

Tops. so i think that takes on a different dynamic when you have somebody like paul who is 12 years old who already knows, recognizes the fact that he is essentially going to have to grow up, go through puberty and adolescence in a correctional facility. i have to say that in those particular cases, the juvenile facility is the one best prepared to help him through that type of growth. >> it's for precisely these reasons that paul and his lawyer, monica foster, continue to fight to keep him in the system. >> we're trying to go to indiana supreme court to get appeals i can get waived down to ju...

Youth offenders. >> most of the kids we get in our juvenile system are going to be here for six to 12 months tops. so i think that takes on a different dynamic when you have somebody like paul who is 12 years old who already knows, recognizes the fact that he is essentially going to have to grow up, go through puberty and adolescence in a correctional facility. i have to say that in those particular cases, the juvenile facility is the one best prepared to help him through that type of growth. >> it's for precisely these reasons that paul and his lawyer, monica foster, continue to fight to keep...

Tops. so i think that takes on a different dynamic when you have somebody like paul who is 12 years old who already knows, recognizes the fact that he is essentially going to have to grow up, go through puberty and adolescence in a correctional facility. i have to say that in those particular cases, the juvenile facility is the one best prepared to help him through that type of growth. >> it's for precisely these reasons that paul and his lawyer, monica foster, continue to fight to keep him in the system. >> we're trying to go to indiana supreme court to get appeals i can get waived down to ju...