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Post by Dabbit on Aug 18, 2006 8:26:25 GMT -5
A 31 year old mother is starting a nine year jail sentence - serving at least 6 years for giving her son hard drugs including heroin. She was a user herself 0 which is absolutely no excuse, and if you ask me this woman should have been steralised and put in jail for life! The boy is now in the care of social services... Story |
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Post by sandy on Aug 18, 2006 10:06:18 GMT -5
Some people should just be locked up and the key thrown away. I always thought there should be a test you had to pass before you can be a parent. But God set us all up the same and we have the ability to procreate willy nilly.
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Post by Mark on Aug 18, 2006 10:39:29 GMT -5
I would deem that to be an attempt on the boy's life and she should be made to suffer an appropriate punishment, enforced sterilization and solitary confinement from now on.
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Post by sandy on Aug 19, 2006 10:12:14 GMT -5
Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of heroin addicts?
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Post by Maria on Aug 19, 2006 11:03:04 GMT -5
Outrageous. That mother has set-up that child for one long difficult life.
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Post by Mark on Aug 20, 2006 11:08:14 GMT -5
I am not sure any punishment is too severe for a person like that. She's ruined the child's life, no doubt. Is her's more valuable?
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Post by louise90 on Aug 20, 2006 17:08:41 GMT -5
I read this in the paper, Dave. It's disgusting. I'm glad she got 9 years, but think she should have got longer.
Louise
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Post by Maria on Aug 20, 2006 17:18:38 GMT -5
It does amaze me how some "parents" give their children just dangerous substances. I have a friend that is a social worker and she says she has had some kids (infants) that parents have put drugs in their formula. Kids have been give every kind of drug imaginable. That is what she has come across. Of course what that means is that the drugs (even if not addictive) cause all sort of arrented development--both mental and physical. Thus the tax payers end up footing the care (maybe for life) of these victims. Or else some the kids just turn into addicts. Very sad indeed.
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Post by Dabbit on Aug 21, 2006 4:30:05 GMT -5
As an average human being I fail to see how she could have done this, but of course I have never taken or been interested in any type of drug - although I did smoke, which I never ever dreamt of pushing on to my children.
However natural curiosity got one of them and they wanted to try it - and I gave them the advice - thatshe could smoke if she wished to ruin her life (I had given up by this time), smell (the smell is truly disgusting), poor (cigarettes are so expensive I think currently they are about £5.00 for a pack of 20), and of course the obvious health reasons. I also told her she couldn't smoke in our house, but would have to go out in the garden. I felt that as I had done it for some years it would not be right for me to say 'don't do it' and besides that only results in arguments anyway.
Luckily she never liked it but both my daughters like a tipple or seventy!
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Post by Mark on Aug 21, 2006 14:14:31 GMT -5
Personally, I think tobacco should be outlawed. I'll stick to 'tippling'.... ;D
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Post by sandy on Aug 21, 2006 15:29:10 GMT -5
Wow. Tippling can wreck familes and kill people if it's not done responsibly. I have lost a lot of friends from tippling too much and driving. Or just tippling too much for too long. Some of those friends died from second hand tippling. I find both smoking and tippling is a personal choice and the law should not enter into it. They get their cut from taxes. Smoking is a choice that someone makes .The companies should not be held responsible because some person was stupid enough to smoke 4 packs a day and contracted cancer. That is just ludicrous. We have the choice to smoke or not. Illegal drugs are a different thing altogether. Drug companies who are in sucha hurry to make money on a drug that is supposed to save a life and instead takes live should be help accountable. Oh my I am ranting.
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Post by Mark on Aug 22, 2006 11:00:36 GMT -5
Oh, nothing in excess, to be sure. And I would never suggest that one should drink and then drive! That certainly goes without saying. However, in moderation, alcohol can actually be good for some if not most people. Smoking can't be considered to be good for anyone and second-hand smoke has been proved to be deleterious to one's health. One thing is for sure, the smell of alcohol doesn't carry very far, but smoke from burning tobacco is pervavsive and foul-smelling to non-smokers as well as being noxious. When I speak of a ban on smoking, I mean, of course, in public. What one does in the privacy of their own abode won't bother me.
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