ORLANDO, Fla. -- A trend of increased juvenile crime committed on the streets of Florida and other states includes a 70 percent increase in homicides and a 130 percent increase in attempted homicides.

New statistics obtained by Local 6 from the Department of Juvenile Justice show young criminals usually come from non-traditional homes.

Of the most serious offenders, only 14.8 percent of juveniles live with their biological mother. The remaining offenders lived in some other arrangement.

The report featured a jailhouse interview with Central Floridian Dankerie Butler, who never knew his father.

Butler was videotaped pointing a gun to a man's head during an Orange County robbery in May 2007.

"Would you have pulled the trigger that day?" Local 6's Donald Forbes asked.

"If there was a need for it, I probably would have," Butler said.

"What did you want that day?" Forbes asked.

"I wanted money," Butler said.

Butler said he was not afraid to get caught because he is under 18.

"It is more like a day care," Butler said.

Butler was first arrested for stealing a car at 15 and placed on probation. He violated the probation four times, Forbes reported.

"My probation got terminated and then I caught another charge like four months and got put back on probation and violated three more times," Butler said.

Butler received only a few days in a detention facility and a slap on the wrist until the armed robbery charge, Forbes reported.

"I cried for a long time because that is something I never expected, not out of my son," Butler's mother Wanda Stanley said. I went back and forth to court and back and forth and it got to the point, I said, 'I want to relinquish my parental rights because I can't do this any more.' I was missing work. There was nothing I could do."

"(My mother) was strict but it was not too strict because she was a female so I really didn't take her as seriously as I would if I probably had a father," Butler said.

Butler said the streets were more important than school.

"Being in the streets and being known with money, cars, clothes and females and things like that, it seems like that is more important than really getting an education," Butler said.

Butler and his mother said if the juvenile justice system had been tougher after the first offense, it would be more of a deterrent for him and others who repeatedly commit brutal crimes, Forbes reported.

Butler's early release date is set for December 2010.

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