Posted on 08/03/2010 12:05:57 PM PDT by raccoonradio
A 50-year-old Cohasset mom - charged alongside her teenage son with throwing a wild underage drinking party for nearly two dozen youths - was busted months earlier and ordered to be tested for a possible alcohol problem.
Elizabeth McQuade was arrested May 17 and was order by a judge to undergo an alcohol evaluation "to deterimine if she had a problem," said David Traub, a spokesman for Norfolk District Attorney William Keating.
Before she could be tested, she was busted Saturday and charged with the weekend’s shenanigans.
McQuade and her son, Taylor, 18,pleaded not guilty yesterday in Quincy District Court to charges they let 23 teens drink at their home Saturday.
Police found teens swilling booze and playing drinking games behind 11 Deep Run on Saturday after being called to the residence at about 11 p.m. because of complaints about a neighborhood disturbance and underage drinking party, cops said. Empty beer cans and cups also were found strewn about the property, police said.
When police arrived they also heard a group of about 30 people chanting “take off your shirt” and “we got your shirt off,” a police report said.
“Quite frankly, it’s reckless,” said Cohasset police Lt. William P. Quigley. He added parents of some of the teens present at the party have told cops they had no idea their children were given alcohol. The teens are being summoned to court for being minors in possession of alcohol.
“Some of the parents are quite angry,” Quigley said. “You have to double check your teen’s plans.”
Defense attorney Kathleen Sullivan downplayed the incident.
“They are mere allegations,” she said.
Coven ordered mother and son to abstain from drugs and alcohol and undergo in-home sobriety testing, Traub said.
They are due back in court Aug. 30.
Cohasset is a well to do town and the house, seen on Fox 25 Boston reports, looked pretty spiffy
None of their business if she has a problem or not. If she broke the law, arrest her. She’s 50. Sheesh.
Kennedy relatives?
Well, it is called the Irish Riviera. But on the lighter side. Who’s shirt do you think the chanters wanted taken off? Yeah, I’m guessing Mom’s problem isn’t just the booze. She’s 50 now and she wants to live in Cougar Town.
those alchol eval test are designed to fail, Mother Therresa couldn’t pass one, I know this is fact as I was told by one of the people who helped designed it
From what I heard on Howie’s show, there were quite a few
more guys than gals in the teen crowd...
or was it more gals that guys...well, “take it off take it all off”
Of course. The purpose is to drive more public money into the Therapeutic Cult. Never mind that those programs are worthless. It provides jobs for Social "Sciences" grads.
I was supposed to take an alcohol eval. I don’t have a damn drinking problem, so I blew it off and went to a bar.
There’s no such “test” to determine if you have an alcohol problem. Other than asking “Do you have a drinking problem?” and expecting an honest answer.
The Irish Riviera begins just south in Scituate and ends at the southern border of Marshfield.
Cohassett is severly lacking in hibernian surnames.
more from the Quincy (MA) Patriot Ledger (”An adult who knows that a minor is drinking in his or her home can be punished with a $2,000 fine or up to a year in prison.”)
http://www.patriotledger.com/news/cops_and_courts/x2083433859/Mother-son-arrested-on-alcohol-charges
COHASSET —
A Cohasset mother was arraigned this morning, along with her 18-year-old son, and charged with violating the state’s social host law, two days after police responded to complaints about an underage drinking party at their home.
Judge Mark Coven released Taylor McQuade and Elizabeth McQuade, 50, on “personal recognizance” this morning at Quincy District Court. The judge has ordered that neither could use drugs or drink alcohol, and also that they must submit to related testing. In addition, Elizabeth McQuade agreed to Judge Coven’s request that a sobriety monitoring device be set up her home.
The case has been continued until the next hearing on August 30. On that same day, the mother could face more legal trouble in a probation surrender hearing. State probation officials contend that, with this weekend’s incident, Elizabeth McQuade has violated the terms of her probation related to a past domestic violence case.
Police arrested the mother and son after responding to a neighborhood complaint about a disturbance and underage drinking at the McQuade home on Deep Run, a side street off Jerusalem Road, at about 11 p.m. Saturday.
Lt. William Quigley said officers determined after talking to witnesses that Elizabeth McQuade was well aware that teenagers were drinking alcohol in her home.
Officers found youngsters ranging in age from 17 to 19 playing drinking games. Empty beer cans and cups were scattered on the property.
Besides the social host law, Elizabeth McQuade is also charged with keeping a disorderly house and disturbing the peace. Her son faces an additional charge of being a minor in possession of alcohol.
Police said 23 underage teens from Cohasset, Milton, Weymouth, Pembroke, Braintree, Scituate, Duxbury, East Bridgewater and Waltham will be summoned to court for being minors in possession of alcohol.
“We’re happy that we were able to get everyone home safely and hold the hosts of this party accountable,” Quigley said Sunday.
The state’s social host law was enacted as a result of a fatal crash that killed a Marshfield teenager on June 22, 1996.
Gregory Smith, 18, was drunk and on his way home when he left a graduation party and crashed into a tree in Cohasset.
In 1997, a Quincy District Court jury acquitted a Cohasset businessman of providing beer to high school students at the party.
A lawsuit was settled out of court.
Smith’s parents later lobbied for the host law, which lawmakers passed in 2000 to close a loophole in an old statute.
The law makes it illegal for adults to knowingly or intentionally give alcohol to minors, or to allow minors to drink in their home. An adult who knows that a minor is drinking in his or her home can be punished with a $2,000 fine or up to a year in prison.
McQuade couldn’t be reached for comment.
A breast cancer survivor, she has been making bracelets, necklaces and earrings sold in stores in Massachusetts and several other states while donating many thousands of dollars to promote breast cancer awareness and research.
Her website says 20 percent of proceeds go to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Mother and Son
You have someone who you suspect has a drinking problem "blow" everyday.....
That will give you an answer............
Obviously, however, this party got out of hand.
I agree with you but I still don’t understand why a grown adult would want 30 teenagers partying at her house let alone buying them alcohol.
Lower the drinking age and let these young adults drink in bars or their own places. Stay away from my house!
I couldn’t imagine a worse way to spend an evening.
Roger that, but drinking age in most states had been 18 for most of the 20th Century. The problem is that we all moved out to suburbs and the kids all started driving at 15. Teens are bad enough drivers sober. Add booze and cellphones and you’re asking for trouble. Growing up in NYC, we didn’t have cars, but we did have parties and no one got hurt.
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