Posted on 03/17/2006 7:33:46 PM PST by Westlander
The case involving an aunt who allegedly injected heroin into the arm of her 12-year-old nephew has taken a turn, as the woman's mother is now facing charges.
Jan Catton, 47, of Warren, is the mother of the Jacqueline Vuich, 25, who is accused of injecting heroin into the arm of her nephew as he was eating spaghetti in the basement of their Warren home on Jan. 25, according to police.
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Whats the big deal, this happend to me all the time when I was a Kid.....
Lock them all up and throw away the keys. These people belong in jail for a very long time. I feel very sorry for the children of these creeps.
Really, really sick. 5 years isn't enough.
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http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/7994415/detail.html
Syringe Contained 50 Grams, Police Say
A Warren woman is being charged with injecting about 50 grams of heroin into the arm of her 12-year-old nephew.
The incident occurred on Jan. 24 at a home on Cottage Lane, in the Groesbeck area, where the boy lived with his grandmother, according to the Macomb Daily.
The 12-year-old was eating spaghetti in the basement of the home when Jacqueline Ellen Vuich, 25, allegedly took a syringe and injected a brown liquid near the elbow, according to police.
Relatives rushed the unconscious boy to the emergency room. Doctors at Henry Ford Bi-County Hospital transferred him to Children's Hospital in Detroit where he was listed in critical condition, according to the paper.
Let me be the first to call "BS" on this. A sugar packet is a gram. Imagine the equivalent of 50 packets of sugar in a syringe.
Also, just guessing that a gram of heroin's street value is $100, that would be $5,000 bucks worth.
Wouldn't 50 grams of heroin be fatal?
I believe you are correct, this was mis-reported.
I would think a bag or even half a bag would put down a 12 yr old.How much is in a bag I havn't a clue. I can not understand why she would do this. From having a junkie brother, now deceased I know that most addicts wouldnt give up their dope. Something seems strange here. Was she trying to kill the kid ? I never heard if he died or not. This is unthinkable to me, to do this to a child. Where were child services?
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