The grieving mother stormed out of a Manhattan courtroom one day in February during closing arguments in the three-week murder trial of the men accused of killing her son and another young man.
In the restroom down the hall, she fell to her knees, praying for her son, the jurors and the three men on trial in the killings.
As she prayed, another mother entered — the mother of one of the defendants, Jacob Barroso.
“I immediately stood up and she said, ‘Are you all right?’ and I said, ‘No, I’m not,’” Clary said.
The two mothers embraced.
“It was two moms who are in agony and pain, coming together and somehow appreciating each other’s agony and pain,” she said through tears. “And I feel like it was truly a divine, other-kingdomly moment that words cannot describe.”
But prayers could not save either son.
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