Posted on 09/10/2001 8:20:25 PM PDT by Liz
NEW CASTLE — A couple arrested after allowing a stripper to dance naked at a party for Horace Greeley High School students is now under investigation by Child Protective Services for letting their 17-year-old son watch the woman's performance.
New Castle police reported Robert and Rochelle Wien to the state child abuse hotline on Thursday, Detective Sgt. James Carroll told The Journal News yesterday. The case was referred to the Westchester Department of Social Services, and a senior caseworker has been in contact with the family.
Carroll said police are required to notify the state hotline about any potential improprieties or abuse involving children under 18 years old. Nancy Travers, deputy commissioner of the county Department of Social Services, said confidentiality rules prohibited her from commenting in any way about child protective cases. She would neither confirm nor deny that the Wiens were under investigation.
The Wiens hosted a party Saturday night at their James Road home that more than 50 teen-agers attended to celebrate the end of summer and kick off the Greeley football season.
The couple's 17-year-old son, Jeremy, is a third-string quarterback on the team, and school officials have said that at least a dozen other team members attended the party. Authorities have said many students were drinking beer, and some were smoking marijuana.
When police responded for the second time that night to a noise complaint from the neighborhood, they found the Wiens and dozens of cheering students watching a 31-year-old stripper lying naked on the backyard patio.
The woman, who has not been charged, reportedly let teen-age boys lick whipped cream from her breasts and had some of them help her simulate sex acts with a sex toy.
The Wiens were each charged with endangering the welfare of a child and unlawfully dealing with a child, misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in the county jail. They are due in New Castle Town Court on Thursday. The couple have declined to comment on the case and were unavailable yesterday. A lawyer reportedly handling their case has not returned several telephone calls.
Why weren't they and the students prosecuted for drug possession? I guess that's ok in NY and with Gov. Pataki.
It's not stupid, it's outrageous -- and criminal.
First of all, there were children much younger than 18 there.
Second, they were other people's children -- parents who expected these parents to properly supervise a party at their home.
Third, just because something is "legal" doesn't mean it is "right." Parents should set a higher standard -- not wallow in the gutter with young men who obviously haven't learned any self control because their parents were incapable or unwilling to model it.
To suggest for a moment that his is "no big deal" is beyond the pale.
Minor children, and there were minors at this party, do not have "personal liberties." They have, or should have, parents.
Holland? Give me a break.
This is a defense of their actions??? You're kidding, right? They turn on one of those real cop shows and see felonies, too. And your point is....?
The old "boys'll be boys" line. Pretty sad. Pretty sad, indeed.
I do too but IT'S MY GENERATION!!!!!!!
I hate that generation too, or at least the spoiled rad part of it who continue to scourge the country with their conceits, hatreds and delusions.
But next time, make it "sowed" the wind. Sewing the wind leaves one in... stitches.
Where in the bill of rights does it guarentee teenagers a car? If I thought for one moment that any of my sons would do anything like this, they would never have the keys as a minor. This idea that we turn teens loose with a car just because they're are teens scares me. It's not an entitlement -- yet.
If sticking objects into various orifices isn't outrageous, what is? Maybe you'd better read the article describing what happened a little more closely before you take a position.
Then you shouldn't have given them keys.
I am glad you did, or else they would have learned to hotwire the family stationwagon.
Testerone vole bump
And how many times did you read the article, over and over again. over and over,
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