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"A MUM who let her 11-year-old son get drunk in the street declared: 'We always get drunk together.' "
Mum: I'm Always Getting Drunk With My 11-year-old Son
Seeded on Mon Feb 6, 2012 1:26 PM EST
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Alcohol abuse is terrible. But a mom allowing or encouraging her 11-year-old son to get drunk is atrocious.
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#1 - Mon Feb 6, 2012 1:28 PM ESTThe atrocity is the Judge. Faced with an abusive parent, a hospitalized child and making an obvious statement that Mommy Dearest should be thrown in the pokey, the court gives this malefactor momma a lousy 12 month 'supervision order'.
What's it take to get the book thrown at somebody in that lunatic court?
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#2 - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:33 PM ESTMeanGene-3334839, it does seem the judge was lenient. I think some type of mandatory inpatient treatment is needed for her. I hope she is well supervised.
At least the judge did take the boy away from her, as noted in another article about this that is linked to below.
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An 11-year-old child and a 30-year-old mother. Doing the math, I come up with teen pregnancy and Daddy is nowhere in sight. This was never a good situation for the boy and I'm appalled that it took 11 years for any intervention.
Mom needs to be locked up. The kid is probably a lost cause after 11 years growing up with that horror show of a parental figure. Once the formative years are gone, they're gone forever and that's what makes this such a rotten thing for this woman to have done to this boy.
The barrister said "She has had a wretched life" in seeking leniency for his client. That may well be, but it's no excuse for ruining a child for life.
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The kid is probably a lost cause after 11 years growing up with that horror show of a parental figure.
The child faces a difficult transition period. But quality, loving care from someone or some people can turn his life around. Some of the most successful adults were people who endured horrors during their childhood. That written, he does face tough odds.
Mom needs to be locked up.
If not in a jail cell or mental hospital, she at least needs some type of inpatient treatment for her own addiction and to learn better life skills.
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The child faces a difficult transition period. But quality, loving care from someone or some people can turn his life around. Some of the most successful adults were people who endured horrors during their childhood. That written, he does face tough odds.
Tough odds? He's got 7 years left to adulthood, less than half the time other children get to develop in a healthy, happy environment and on top of that, he's got to be told that his Mother isn't a good person and that what she did was very, very wrong.
If not in a jail cell or mental hospital, she at least needs some type of inpatient treatment for her own addiction and to learn better life skills.
She's a lost cause. Who's going to hire her for a job now? She sure as heck isn't going to get a job anywhere near kids, right? No day care work, no teacher's assistant, no school bus driver, nothing like that. She's a total alcoholic so she's not going to be hired anywhere serving booze. No waitress, no bartender, no convenience store clerk, not even working as a cashier at a grocery store.
The world would practically have to come up with a job she could be hired for as an act of charity. Her criminal record means she can't be a cop or a lawyer, and she certainly can't be a nurse or nurse's assistant, so her options are just pathetic now.
There's only one job she's worthy of that I can think of... Convict.
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