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Our Story Justice for Murdered Children JFMC was established in 1996 by LaWanda Hawkins. LaWandas profound motivation came from the tragic loss of her own son Reginald who was murdered in December 1995. The pain of her personal experience led her to create JFMC with the assistance of attorney Frank a colleague from Century City California. LaWanda along with fellow parents in South Central Los Angeles who had also lost children to murder recognized the unsettling reality that their cases were often going unresolved and their voices were marginalized within the criminal justice system.