Posted on 04/16/2014 8:43:01 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
An Arizona mother will avoid jail time after she got high and drove nearly 12 miles with her 2-month-old baby on the roof of her car.
Maricopa County Superior Judge Cynthia Bailey sentenced 21-year-old Catalina Mariah Clouser on Wednesday to 16 years of supervised probation. She will have to serve 3 months in jail only if she violates the order, a local CBS affiliate reported.
Miss Clouser pleaded guilty in February to child abuse and driving under the influence of marijuana after her infant son was found miraculously unhurt in the middle of a Phoenix highway in June 2012, still strapped into his car seat, Reuters reported.
Miss Clouser, who was 19 at the time, had driven about 12 miles with the baby on the roof after reportedly smoking pot at a friend’s house. She was arrested after realizing the baby was missing and returning to the scene.
“I just want to say, I do know that what I did was horrible,” she said during the sentencing last week
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Just legalize it, tax it, and all of our troubles will vanish....< sarc/off>
The hair coloring absorbed through her scalp and has affected her brain. That would have been a defense that might have worked.
Youth is truly wasted on the young ....
Maybe she had just watched “Raising Arizona” and hallucinated that she was starring in it.
At least it wasn’t a dog in a cage. Then we’d have to stone her to death.
And I promise to vote for Democrats forever........................
Well, the kid will either love motorcycles and open cockpits, or hate them.
We all know this story can’t be true. Libertarians have told us that drug use is a victimless crime. /sarc/
The judge should have ordered a tubal ligation as part of her sentence.
Sheriff Joe will not be amused.
legalizing another drug is not going to end well...its not going to make us better people, or reduce crime, or stress, nor make much of an impact in our finacial deficits...
infact, I predict we will be worse people, crime will increase, and our deficits will continue to escalate as we draw up new programs to treat weed addled trash...
Bump
The article doesn’t say, but I don’t suppose authorities took the baby? No, I suppose not. That would be too sane.
Somewhere there is a man who is forever linked to this woman because he chose to sire a child with her
That must have been some pretty good herb to not know you baby is on top of the car.
here’s a video of her biking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpGCIXLPflg
he chose to sire a child with her —
Well, maybe he was on pot at the time, and might have a defense of not really being able to choose.
I’d cut her some slack. Who among us hasn’t driven off with at one time or another with something on the roof...a cup of coffee, a briefcase, a baby...
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