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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No, more and more examples of people doing stupid or evil things and blaming it on pot.
Also known as "drug warrior propaganda".
I don’t think he thought that far - probably not beyond choosing to rut like an animal with her. I could be wrong...
Who would argue that when there is an actual victim?
“As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ‘’Dad!’’ he yelled. ‘’Gross!’’ A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who’d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.
Mr. Romney responded to his dog’s defecation by “coolly” stopping at a gas station where he “borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway” with Seamus strapped back on the roof.”
16 YEARS of probation for this? A very stupid and irresponsible act, to be sure, but that seems a little excessive to me.
Were the sober people who have done this same thing given similar charges for it? (Or the sober people who have accidentally left their child in a car, where he or she ended up dying of hypo/hyper-thermia?) They didn’t even have the “excuse” of being stoned.
Or in Clark Griswold's case, something tied to the back bumper.
Yes to the 1st 2....
Enough probation to get the baby she left on the car roof to adulthood. This happened in 2011, so the child would be between 2 and 3, add the 16 years probation and the child is over 18 when it ends. I wonder if the judge thought this was a way to keep woman and child together while trying to ensure woman thinks about consequences of her actions and maybe reconsiders before she acts.
Yah, and her getting stoned and forgetting about her baby had absolutely nothing to do with it. In fact it probably helped her if we are to believe leftist propaganda.
Here’s an idea. Don’t put your kid on top of your car...EVER!
It took me TWO pairs of Ray-Bans to figure out that you NEVER set ANYTHING on your car.
Catalina Clauser, had only an hour earlier witnessed her boyfriend’s arrest on DUI charges when she allegedly got high on marijuana and placed her baby on the roof of her Ford Focus.
Upset over her boyfriend’s arrest, Phoenix police officer James Holmes said the mother drove to a friend’s house with her baby where she smoked one or two bowls of marijuana.
According to her friends Clauser left around midnight, an hour later, with her baby asleep in his car seat.
Around 1am Saturday morning Phoenix police received calls of baby found lying in the middle of a road strapped in a car seat.
‘The car seat was damaged. There were scrapes on the car seat, obviously from a fall,’ Officer Holmes told KTVK.
Phoenix police say Clauser and her boyfriend were seen earlier that evening smoking marijuana in a park before leaving around 11pm with the baby to buy beer.
It was on that route their vehicle was flagged by a nearby police officer and Clauser’s boyfriend was arrested for aggravated DUI with a baby in the vehicle.
Exactly! I lost a wallet that way. Not to mention a few coffee mugs! Har!
“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...”
A police officer...
Hey, they do it in the movies all the time. So why is it illegal when I do it?
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