Posted on 05/26/2016 12:33:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yeah, I happen to regard this as ridiculously excessive.
This is ridiculous. She shouldn’t have to do any time. She wasn’t even there. Civil charges are another thing.
Wimped out society wants to always blame others. He was 15, not 5 years old.
In the UK some woman texting ran down a kid, killed him and only received a $120 fine and five points on her license.
“During cross-examination, she admitted to knowing her son has had alcohol with his friends at her home in the past and she would rather it be there than out.”
The money quote. She, again, chose poorly.
But I will not go along with supplying a group of her friends with a twelve pack or that sort of thing. That's the sort of thing that leads to these stories, a parent supplying kids with alcohol, supposedly with good intentions of keeping them safe, which ends in some crisis. In this case, death for one of the kids and imprisonment for the parent. No way.
I don’t know that she wasn’t there. She says so but she also says she found the kid dead and bailed on the scene because she was worried about herself. I’m saying it seems she’s not a reliable character. Do others say she was there and supplied the alcohol? Story doesn’t say. But I doubt she’s getting 20 years on the basis of “kids got drunk in her house while she was away and one died”. Sounds like there’s more to it.
Seems extreme to me as well, though all I know is what is in this very short article. Her drug probation issue raises an eyebrow for me, too. But the fact is that it’s not THAT hard to obtain alcohol if you’re a minor, and I think it’s not insane to think you could leave a 15 year old at home for a day without someone dying. Negligence, yes, but 20 years?
Well, that should keep her out of the casino for a while!
Beau and I were just discussing how HARD life must be for stupid people who can’t understand right from wrong.
Here’s more proof...
Admittedly not knowing all of the facts... but it is even possible that some of the kids brought alcohol. It does not sound like she did anything other than have the bad judgment of trusting her own kid. Did she actually “host” the party? Or is that a skewed headline? The sentence seems excessive, if she did not do have any active role in the events.
If you expect children to learn to drink responsibly, you teach them, they certainly wont learn it from their peers.
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Let me take your most excellent statement of fact and generalize it ...
If you expect children to learn X, you teach them, they certainly wont learn it from their peers.
Well, check it out for yourself, but I think research actually showed that what your wife suggests, doesnt result in kids who are more responsible drinkers.
In my mind, it is safer for kids to be nervous and careful about their drinking rather than have it be openly condoned by families.
The paranoia seemed to keep all of us safe because we did not want to get in trouble for being bad.
Know two families whose kids died after being chased off by police and forced to drive from location A to location B to continue their underage party. A big banking family owns both locations and their rich-boy son was the host. Never cited, never sued. The rich escaped unscathed and the other two had insufferable losses. Glad to see a change in this trend of no parental responsibility.
With a big group that’s a wise choice.
We’re always being told women aren’t held accountable the way men are ... but when one is, people say she shouldn’t be. Pass me the cognitive dissonance ... you can hold my car keys!
Red or white and would you like pretzels?
Red, please, and I think Cheez-its go better with cognitive dissonance. But first, I have to pick my kids up from swim team practice.
(hey, I never claimed to be an uptown girl)
Want some peanut butter? I have creamy and chunky.
Time has gotten longer and harder in the Feds
Not meaning to argue but incarceration today is generally much longer universally than 50 years ago
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