Alcohol charge brought in Norfolk bonfire party death

Regardless of whether someone else brought the brew to the party, underage consumers have responsibility to themselves. If the autopsy determines she was inebriated, the victim must be assigned responsibility for her own fate. It is, indeed, sad for the parents and friends but, if she were under the influence, my assumption is that no one held her down and forced beer, wine or liquor down her throat.

So this poor girl is dead because her "friends" deliberately told her to go the wrong way and laughed as she stumbled away, ultimately to her death.

And the cops in their infinite outrageousness are criminally charging some random guy who brought along a small quantity of beer for his own personal use.

Congratulations Barney Fife & Co. for being complete losers. And they wonder why some people call them pigs.

You can't blame him no one forced that girl to drink or go wondering off and drowning. There was 20 other teens out there.

The poor kid probably feels terrible enough about this whole thing. This is a tragic story about how the mistakes we have all made can lead to a terrible outcome in some circumstances.

Unfortunately the cops have to do something here, hopefully he wont be raked over the coals because of this tragedy and will be treated like any other underage kid who is busted for having beer at a party, etc. The community has taken a hard hit, the police should be cognizant of this.

I knew the minute they found that poor girl that the witch hunt would start to blame someone, anyone for the tradegy. Obviously under age drinking is against the law but from what I understand about the whole unfortunate incident nobdoy went there to hurt anybody else. Kids as well as many adults make stupid decisions and this is one of those cases where it proved deadly.
I am sure that the young man's life will be forever changed in a very sad way regardless of being charged, tried and/or convicted of anything. Hopefully young & old alike will take more care in the decisons we make and the possible outcomes from all our actions in life. My thoughts and prayers are with the parents, family & friends of Taylor.

Where are the police officers! Seriously, kids are partying all over the place. Step it up. No excuses

You can charge the guy for bringing alcohol but not much else. I hoped he learned a valuable lesson here.

Hmm. It's a shame the girl isn't going to have the opportunity to "choose again." My thoughts and prayers are with the family.

Dave
ReasonsToStaySober.com