Posted on 09/15/2014 10:32:40 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
Someone is going to get “unfriended” on Facebook real soon. From WKMG-TV in Orlando, Fla.:
According to police, Patricia Denault poured herself a shot of Fireball cinnamon whiskey and took a picture of her son taking a sip. She posted that picture on Facebook, but someone saw that picture and called the police.
"Me taking a picture and putting it on Facebook, I thought it was funny," Denault said.
Denault was arrested on Wednesday, charged with child neglect after she said three uniformed officers and Child Protective Services came to her house and interviewed her kids.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
But any crime that is posted online becomes the Crime of the Century.
bad parenting. does she also have sex with them, you know educationally?
What a stupid woman.
Kid was 7
Stupidity for posting online. Trolls are everywhere.
Which part is the bad parenting? Letting them have a sip of alcohol, or posting a picture of it on Facebook?
sitetest
How could anyone know that it was actual alcohol from a photograph? Other than the caption, it could of just as well been fruit juice.
“...someone saw the picture and called the police.”
OR
the police were scanning Facebook themselves and called DHS to assist in a “capture.”
My grandparents were Italian immigrants. Grew up in Italian section of Brooklyn; always had sips of wine with dinner.
I'm still waiting for the rest of the country to join me over here at "insufferable."
If they arrested every parent who let their kid take a sip...
Being a member of Facebook...
I am really disheartened by some of the reply’s in this thread, but not yours Sitetest.
The family’s rights have been superceded by the authority of the Nanny State/Govt. The Govt. is now the highest moral authority above religion and family.
A natural extension of the nanny state is that everyone is in your business, calling, reporting this or that supposed violation, most of the time from news accounts without sufficient information or knowledge of intent.
Similar to this thread.
Last month or so from the news, a woman left here kids in the suv on a hot day in the market parking lot, she was gone a few minutes, when a busybody pulls up notices the kids promptly gets on the phone to report it to police, as she is still on the phone the mother comes back sees this lady calling the police on her and then the situation got out of hand. Mother runs over lady on phone. Situation amuck. Not exactly the perfect example, but sufficient.
One of my high school teachers had this saying, “Fools names and fools faces are always seen in public places.”
as far as I know it is no crime to provide alcohol to your children in your home. All my children were taught to drink at home and drank at all holiday celebrations. There is nothing to arrest.
NEVER answer any questions from law enforcement or agents of the state without your attorney being present. Do not allow them in your house without a warrant. Do not allow them to question your children.
[ Kid was 7 ]
I was about that age and curious... My dad and his buddies were at the kitchen table and they would have a few drinks while playing cards, I was curious so he have me a little bit of whiskey in a shot glass....
I remember running to the bathroom crying with a burning mouth... I never asked for whiskey for another 10 years....
Probably a reasson why i don’t drink much at all today.
All my Italian-American friends all had wine at family settings as children. Not a lot, but perhaps a small glass for a toast or celebration of some kind.
I would be offered it too. I was a kid and didn’t like the taste. I’d preferred to have an orange crush instead....
So for all of them - wine became a social, communal thing, to be drunk with nana and grandpa a few times a year. Why would anyone sneak out and drink it in a dark alley?
Seems like a smart way to handle it to me.
[ If they arrested every parent who let their kid take a sip... ]
Probably every parent is a criminal, and Absolutely ever parent IS a THOUGHT Criminal!!!!
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