Posted on 07/05/2012 9:42:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Phoenix woman was arrested and charged with child abuse after police said she put beer into her 2-year-old son's sippy cup at a pizza restaurant.
Valerie M. Topete, 36, is facing one count of child abuse after a witness called police and told them she saw Topete pour beer from a pitcher into the infant's cup and place it in front of the child on Tuesday in the 4900 block of East Ray Road.
The witness told police the child later fell from his seat, leading her to believe the boy was intoxicated.
Topete told police her son had been grasping for the pitcher and that she had put a "splash of beer" into her son's cup that contained apple juice, according to police. She told them it was "reverse psychology" to stop him from grabbing at the pitcher. The mother initially told officers the child did not drink from the cup, but later said the child may have drank the beer.
Officers said the cup had about 4 ounces of liquid with foam on the surface and a distinct odor of alcohol.
The boy was taken to Chandler Hospital as a precaution.
Child Protective Service was called to the hospital. Police said the father of the child, and the boy's two siblings, ages 4 and 8, who had also been at the restaurant, arrived at the hospital and the children were turned over to him.
It’s frightening to think that those “people” in the slide show walk among us and may even, in a drug-induced haze, vote for Obama again.
I remember a story a few years ago where a professor from the University of Michigan took his son to a Tigers game. His son was thirsty so he bought him a Mike's Hard Lemonade from a vendor, not realizing there was any alcohol in it. The father was arrested and spent a couple of days in jail, I think, even though a blood test showed no evidence of alcohol in his son's blood.
Wow, that’s... disturbing.
Just. Wow.
Not guilty.
Howard Dean's kid?
LOL
Hai! Ahm Glung Gambull!"
YAAAAAAAUGH, I think so.
BIG guns.
He should know there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
We'll scar the kids more by sending dad to jail than by giving him a sip of beer.
The world is upside down- black is white and white is black. Good grief!
Not Guilty!
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