I let a minor, a street kid, sell drugs for me.

I let a minor, a street kid, sell drugs for me. I justified it by telling myself that he was homeless and dirty b4 he started working for me. I got busted first and they charged me as a mid level drug dealer. They charged him as a street level dealer, as an ADULT. I just got out on house arrest...I had a paid lawyer. He got a year in the county and will get out next month. I feel so guilty, I love this kid, and he went to jail for what I allowed. But the justification in my mind is, if it wouldn't have been me it would have been someone else.....