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“Bizarre” Florida Man Gets Jail Time After Putting Laxatives In Son’s Medication
The Tampa Free Press ^ | September 11, 2022 | Jake Grissom

Posted on 09/12/2022 12:04:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A 54-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison after an investigation found that he was putting laxatives in his son’s daily medication.

According to Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, Craig Alan Ripple, 54, was found guilty of felony child abuse in this case on September 8, 2022.

An investigation into a potential child abuse case in August 2019, when the child’s mother reported that Ripple had been tampering with her 14-year-old son’s medication, removing items belonging to the victim and his sister, and other odd behaviors.

The mother was able to provide FCSO with the tampered medication as well as security footage from the residence showing Ripple removing items from a child’s bedroom.

Detectives met with the mother and two juveniles involved in this case on August 8, 2019. The mother explained that while giving her son his nightly dose of medication, it appeared that the pill had been tampered with.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampafp.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: chat; childabuse; felony; flaglercounty; florida; floridaman; jail; laxatives; localnews; medication; tampering; whut
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1 posted on 09/12/2022 12:04:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A really crappy thing to do to your own son.

Something smells here.


2 posted on 09/12/2022 12:11:25 PM PDT by ncfool (TRUMP SHOULD BE THE KING MAKER IN 2024 AND NOT THE KING. )
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And he’s an ugly SOB to boot.


3 posted on 09/12/2022 12:14:29 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

In the real world there are some folks who get a kick out of *hit you all would call em’ “perverts” there’s some name to call these folks for sure.


4 posted on 09/12/2022 12:17:35 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The guilty party looks like Rosie’O Donnel with a crewcut.
He’s looking straight into the camera, as though proud of all his ‘work’.

The article is choppy and incomplete.
We are not told why a 14 y/o needed his Mom to prepare his medications. If this happened before, or to the other two children. Did the Step Dad give any reason for why he did this?


5 posted on 09/12/2022 12:18:51 PM PDT by lee martell ( )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Munchausen by proxy?


6 posted on 09/12/2022 12:21:03 PM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A Yankees fan. Go Figure.


7 posted on 09/12/2022 12:23:20 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: SpaceBar

Yankee fan, figures


8 posted on 09/12/2022 12:29:49 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Now arrest parents giving kids “gender affirming” medical treatments.


9 posted on 09/12/2022 12:31:28 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I am sorry but we are going to have to start hanging child abusers.

There does not seem to be any other way to stop it.

10 posted on 09/12/2022 12:32:24 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A lot more information with another article here.

In addition to putting laxatives in his son's medication, this bizarre creep was taking the children’s clothes, homework and jewelry and hiding them in order to see the mother frantically search for the items. He would also pour liquid in the children's beds to make it look like they were urinated in. Eventually the mother put up surveillance cameras to catch her husband in the act. She then divorced him - no surprise there.

According to the article I linked, this guy takes 17 prescription drugs of his own related to diabetes, blood pressure and heart issues. I guess he'll have to constantly worry about if they are tampered with while he's in prison.

As an aside, journalism in this country sucks. Nobody does the who, what, when, where and why anymore (the 5 "W"s of journalism I was taught in 8th grade). That original article was awful and gave you scant information.

11 posted on 09/12/2022 12:36:51 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,057,863 users on Truth Social)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ripple. Ripple was a fortified, lightly-carbonated sweet wine cooler produced by the the Californian E&J Gallo Winery between 1960 and 1984


12 posted on 09/12/2022 12:42:58 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I think he is a stepfather, not the real father but the stories aren’t telling us that.

This site says stepfather. https://www.crimeonline.com/tag/craig-alan-ripple/


13 posted on 09/12/2022 12:51:36 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So many evil people.

Not just laxatives. Here are a few of the many eyedrop cases:

S.C. nurse who fatally poisoned husband with eye drops in water: “I just wanted him to suffer”

Arkansas woman allegedly tried to poison husband with eye ...nypost.com Jan 1, 2021 — Tina Glasco, 56, was arrested Wednesday after a police investigation revealed she was using Visine eye drops to slowly poison her husband....

2 security officers accused of trying to poison supervisor with eyedrops...www.nbcnews.com ....
Mar 22, 2022 — The charge carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.


14 posted on 09/12/2022 1:12:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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15 posted on 09/12/2022 1:20:38 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Which one was more full of shi’ite, the son or the dad?


16 posted on 09/12/2022 1:21:08 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Jimmy Carter.)
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To: SpaceBar

Yankees fan too.
Guilty!


17 posted on 09/12/2022 1:25:52 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: higgmeister

“Ripple was a fortified, lightly-carbonated sweet wine cooler produced by the the Californian E&J Gallo Winery between 1960 and 1984”

A stroll down memory lane....
Ripple, Hogshead, Night Train, Thunderbird, MD 20/20, Boone’s Farm, Cisco and Wild Irish Rose.
The kids were crazy about the Boones Farm and the bruthas choked down the rest.

I was purely a beer type myself, then I was introduced to Scotch.


18 posted on 09/12/2022 1:33:44 PM PDT by oldvirginian
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To: oldvirginian
I'll never forget my newly wed bride when I brought home a bottle of Cutty Sark.   She grabbed it from me and said, "Oh goody Scotch!"   I didn't know what to think right then.   But we are in our 48th year together.
19 posted on 09/12/2022 1:50:21 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

There are more female child abusers than men. Be prepared for that and don’t wimp out.


20 posted on 09/12/2022 2:33:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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