Posted on 11/21/2010 2:28:58 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
A Hartford mother was arrested after her toddler fell from a third floor window while she was allegedly smoking marijuana.
The two-year-old boy fell from an apartment at 1668 Broad St. around 5 p.m. Saturday, police Sgt. Michael Kot said. The toddler was playing near an open window, which did not have a screen, Kot said. His mother, Marilis Santiago, 22, was smoking marijuana at the kitchen table at the time, Kot addded.
The toddler suffered a bruised liver, a fracture to his right arm, and facial lacerations, Kot said. The child was taken to the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, but his condition was not immediately known.
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obviously this is a clarion call for the legalization of marijuana. After all, had she been able to ... (oh, never mind)
Victimless crime.
Why would a window be wide open in Connecticut in late November? Must have been to clear smoke.
That’s it! Global warming to blame. :-)
If she had been doing needlepoint, would the kid be less hurt?
I don’t know what we should do, what if this was an attempted late term abortion and we just don’t know the mother’s intent. /SARC/ (Shouted just in case someone missed it.)
The child lived, so as far as we know, smoking marijuana has still not killed anyone.
Random thoughts:
-You wanna get high, do it on your own time. And when you’re supposed to be watching/raising your child, you ain’t on your own damn time anymore.
-Having a third floor window open without so much as a screen when you have a toddler in the house is blazingly stupid, whether you are smoking pot or drinking decaffeinated tea.
“Santiago was charged with risk of injury to minor, possession of marijuana, and *possession of marijuana with 1500 feet of school.*”
-I’m not going to defend this mother’s parenting skills on any level. The kid would probably be better off in foster care than with someone as irresponsible as this bint. But that last charge bothers me. She doesn’t appear to have been dealing, which I assume is the rationale for these laws. And the harm done to her child is not relevant to her proximity to a school.
she intended to get a new screen for the window but she got high.
>>If she had been doing needlepoint, would the kid be less hurt?<<
Understanding that there is no smoke from the art of needlepoint, and therefore there would be no reason to have a screenless window open in November, I would say, YES.
The child would be hurt less if she weren’t smoking pot.
If she was doing meth, would she have seen the baby fall, and been able to run outside and catch the child?
But all bad things come from the war on drugs.
Clearly if pot were legal there would be no gravity.
Or like, something.
/paultard
PLEASE! Drop all charges in exchange for her agreeing to not write a song about her kid falling out the window! For the love of God, PLEASE!!!!!
>>Clearly if pot were legal there would be no gravity.<<
Oh my goodness! You should have had a liquid warning on that post!
Roflol!
I’ve got three windows and two doors open right now.
Alas, I have no pot and no little kids around, but the house is still open.
The cats think highly of this.
Open windows are sometimes open for reasons other than to vent pot smoke.
Odd but true.
Fact is there is no evidence to blame this woman’s pot smoking
for the kid falling out the window. Stupidity perhaps, yep.
Definitely stupidity. Provable.
Pot smoking? Not so much.
A clarion call for some people to not be able to procreate. Where is any parental control? No wonder we’re in such shit. Bottom line.
Thank God she wasn’t drinking a beer or they could make that illegal.
Years ago, “Sixty Minutes” was interviewing a couple of hippies camped in a park in CA. They were smoking pot and making very little sense, but were very relaxed as their two toddlers played on the road.
Pot heads should not have children.
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