Posted on 05/26/2016 12:33:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Lexington woman is sentenced to 20 years in prison after a 15-year-old boy dies of alcohol poisoning at a party at her home.
15-year-old Nicholas Faught died at the party allegedly hosted by Tonya Moss and Justin Moore in March of 2015.
At the sentencing, the victim's mother gave her testimony, the whole time choking back tears and looking straight at Moss saying she will never understand what her family is going through.
The defendant also gave her testimony, claiming she did not know about the party and thought her son was only having a bonfire with a few friends.
She claims she was not home at the time.
She said she was at a casino which prosecutors said was a violation of her probation for previous drug charges.
The defendant claims when she got home, she found Nicholas dead on the bathroom floor and she then left the home because she was scared of what might happen to her.
During cross-examination, she admitted to knowing her son has had alcohol with his friends at her home in the past and she would rather it be there than out.
Defense attorneys asked for a suspended sentence, but the judge told the defendant she believes this was a fair sentence for the crime committed.
Family members of the victim said they are satisfied with the sentence.
"She should have as much time as possible to just sit and think about what she did and what she's caused our whole family to go through. Not even our whole family, the whole town, for that matter," said Kali Faught, the victim's sister.
Faught's family members said they believe Justin Moore, Moss's boyfriend who was with her that night, is expected in court sometime in October.
Moore is also charged with accessory after the fact in a Pottawatomie County murder.
Yeah, I happen to regard this as ridiculously excessive.
This is ridiculous. She shouldn’t have to do any time. She wasn’t even there. Civil charges are another thing.
Wimped out society wants to always blame others. He was 15, not 5 years old.
In the UK some woman texting ran down a kid, killed him and only received a $120 fine and five points on her license.
“During cross-examination, she admitted to knowing her son has had alcohol with his friends at her home in the past and she would rather it be there than out.”
The money quote. She, again, chose poorly.
But I will not go along with supplying a group of her friends with a twelve pack or that sort of thing. That's the sort of thing that leads to these stories, a parent supplying kids with alcohol, supposedly with good intentions of keeping them safe, which ends in some crisis. In this case, death for one of the kids and imprisonment for the parent. No way.
I don’t know that she wasn’t there. She says so but she also says she found the kid dead and bailed on the scene because she was worried about herself. I’m saying it seems she’s not a reliable character. Do others say she was there and supplied the alcohol? Story doesn’t say. But I doubt she’s getting 20 years on the basis of “kids got drunk in her house while she was away and one died”. Sounds like there’s more to it.
Seems extreme to me as well, though all I know is what is in this very short article. Her drug probation issue raises an eyebrow for me, too. But the fact is that it’s not THAT hard to obtain alcohol if you’re a minor, and I think it’s not insane to think you could leave a 15 year old at home for a day without someone dying. Negligence, yes, but 20 years?
Well, that should keep her out of the casino for a while!
Beau and I were just discussing how HARD life must be for stupid people who can’t understand right from wrong.
Here’s more proof...
Admittedly not knowing all of the facts... but it is even possible that some of the kids brought alcohol. It does not sound like she did anything other than have the bad judgment of trusting her own kid. Did she actually “host” the party? Or is that a skewed headline? The sentence seems excessive, if she did not do have any active role in the events.
If you expect children to learn to drink responsibly, you teach them, they certainly won’t learn it from their peers.
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Let me take your most excellent statement of fact and generalize it ...
If you expect children to learn X, you teach them, they certainly won’t learn it from their peers.
Well, check it out for yourself, but I think research actually showed that what your wife suggests, doesn’t result in kids who are more responsible drinkers.
In my mind, it is safer for kids to be nervous and careful about their drinking rather than have it be openly condoned by families.
The paranoia seemed to keep all of us safe because we did not want to get in trouble for being bad.
Know two families whose kids died after being chased off by police and forced to drive from location A to location B to continue their underage party. A big banking family owns both locations and their rich-boy son was the host. Never cited, never sued. The rich escaped unscathed and the other two had insufferable losses. Glad to see a change in this trend of no parental responsibility.
With a big group that’s a wise choice.
We’re always being told women aren’t held accountable the way men are ... but when one is, people say she shouldn’t be. Pass me the cognitive dissonance ... you can hold my car keys!
Red or white and would you like pretzels?
Red, please, and I think Cheez-its go better with cognitive dissonance. But first, I have to pick my kids up from swim team practice.
(hey, I never claimed to be an uptown girl)
Want some peanut butter? I have creamy and chunky.
Time has gotten longer and harder in the Feds
Not meaning to argue but incarceration today is generally much longer universally than 50 years ago
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