Gloucester woman sentenced to jail for giving alcohol to kids

You have to be kidding me..... A Mother provided alcohol to her own daughter
and her friends. What does she expect from the daughter pregnancy at 14. she should loose contact with those kids until they are 21. She should be so PROUD of herself!!!! I am so glad my kids were not there, she wouldn't of made it to court......

"serves" her right

WHAT AN AWSOME PARENT!! SHE SHOULD GET MOM OF THE YEAR OR MAYBE THEY SHOULD INVENT A NOBEL PRIZE FOR SMART PARENTING AND GIVE IT TO HER!

She needs jail time - HER 13 year old daughter wants some alcohol
and she goes and buys it ......
E - X - CUSE me - something is wrong here =
She needs to be checked out by the doctors at the " funny farm".....
No joke - some of them kids could have died.

I wish my mom was that cool.

It happens more often than is imaginable. I remember a conversation I had with a woman about my daughters age. She said when she was in high school her parents bought beer for her and her friends. They were so glad she was drinking at home. WHAT????? This was prompted by my telling a few others that my youngest daughter had been invited to stay the weekend at a house at the beach following her senior prom. The mom couldn't be there but her "ver responsible" 21 year old nephew would be chaperoning! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????????So yeah, wake up people, KNOW WHERE YOUR KIDS ARE AND WHO THEY ARE WITH!!
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WTF is wrong with parents??? These are the people that should not be able to conceive children... She bought it at the "request" of her child??? Maybe I should allow my children to stay home alone and watch rated "R" movies and oh yes, play rated M video games.. But I will NOT do that.. You know why?? Because I am the parent, not them and my job as a parent is to protect them and make sure they are safe from things that could be damaging to them... I may not win any popularity votes in my house, but my kids will HOPEFULLY appreciate it when they get older and have their own children.

The more I know about people...the less I want to know about people.....I would like to say this shocks me, but to be honest it doesnt....its just downright sad......

We citizens of Massachusetts just voted to decriminalize pot, and yet we are shocked when parents do this?

what is sad is the 8 year old boy who killed himself with an uzi, an automatic weapon, while being supervised by the gun show guy and the kid's emergency room doctor dan... neither of those adults have been charged with any crime. Do you think they'll end up in jail like the misinformed mother who fed her kids and other kids alcohol?

It was Gloucester! With all that has been going on there lately what else should we expect!

I don't blame the mother for buying alcohol for her daughter- because in other countries, you've got kids drinking wine at age 5. But what was so irresponsible about this mother is that she did not regulate the drinking. She should have kept the alcohol to just her daughter. What if the other kids had an alcohol allergy- she could have totally killed them? And to let them drink till they were ill?! what the freak was wrong with her?! We Americans always seem to do everything in excess. I don't think there are many places where college kids salivate over alcohol and think it's fun to go to parties and get so trashed they black out. .

Responding to #9.

I know... Why don't we decriminalize alcohol?

Oh yeah. Its already been done.

In other words, decriminalizing pot doesn't mean giving it to your children.

RESPONSE TO 12
I agree, 12 is very young. But a parent buying alcohol for their high school student can be acceptable if its regulated and kept in the home, even with a few friends.
as to you saying," I don't think there are many places where college kids salivate over alcohol and think it's fun to go to parties and get so trashed they black out. "
are you nuts? im in college and i work my ass off in class and at my part time job all week. Ever college student i know loves to drink, and get drunk..after all, thats the point! get real buddy im sure you did it in your younger years too

I had a friend when I was growing up whose father gave him beer when he was an early teenager. He gave him enough beers that he got sick. And he never wanted any alcohol, no matter how strong the peer pressure was, ever since. (But of course, this was confined to father and son, and was done as a lesson. This story about the Gloucester mother is very different)

I was raised around alcohol didn't mean I could drink it.....I'm glad about the 1yr she's been given it should of been more ...1yrs for every kid who drank the alcohol ....Morals were are they !!!!...Some parents still need parenting skills.now a days the child tells the parent what to do ...Mother of 2

To MQ from #12 You dont blame her??? We are not in another country we are here in America where a 12 year old girl should be protected from mind and body altering cemicals that cause sorosis, alcoholism I hope you read up on alcohol abuse to see adults who have a problem start very young. We did not vote to legalise Marajauna we voted to fine them and not ruin a future life of someone who trys it in high school o college. Kids will also try alcohol in high school and college but wont go to jail or have a permanate record for trying it. The issue is about a parent resonsibility to protect and not harm.

Okay, #17, clearly we should be more worried about the fact that you can't spell. We are worrying about alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana when we should be worrying about teaching our children the basics such as spelling and grammar. Afterall if a person can't grasp the concept of spelling a word correctly or speaking correctly, how the hell can you expect a person to grasp the concept of good parenting skills?

this is my mother, i am her only daughter and i love her more than anything in this world, she is my best friend, and i had to watch my only parent go to jail yesturday because of me, i hadnt cried in years and i still cant stop, she did not buy the alcohal, she was covering for me, because she loves me, i took alcohal from my grandparents closet downstiars from our apartment, and brought it up, and said my mom bought it, then the second time one of the girls brought it over from her uncles house, nobody got hurt or sick, or even drunk for that matter, my mom didnt even know we were drinking, she was downstiars thinking we were watching a movie while she was eating chineese food with my grandparents, i tried to tell the court it was me, but they didnt belive me because of my age the wouldnt take me seriously, i love my mother more than anything and i would do anything for her not to be in there right now, its my fault, and only mine, so please dont tlak about her, she did nothing wrong. i love her.=/

Respond to number 13.Good answer....good comeback.

wow. your mother must love you very much and she was probably just trying to
protect you fom getting in trouble. The best thing you can do right now is pray for her that God will protect while she's not with you. I know i will be. Something lse you an do is continue to do the best you can do, in all aspects of your life. Write her letters to encourage he and let her know how much you love and miss her. I think will help her a lot. Keep your head high and think positive. Stay close to all the people in your life that you love. I'll be praying for you too. God Bless.

Wow,, what was next, ?Hey Mom, I need some crack for the crew,, oh and tammy,s pregnant but she dont know who the father is, could be dad,s or michele,s dad, we dont know,,Mom, Im giving oral sex to all the boyz In 7th grade cuz I wont get pregnant,, Oh thats ok dear mom did that tooooo,,I think Its time to leave this country,,

Giving alcohol to the kid's friends, and letting one kid drink himself sick, was a horrible idea. Mom deserves whatever happens to her.

That said, assuming there is no alcoholism in the family, I don't see anything wrong with giving alcohol to a 12-year-old, as long as the parents keep it at home, only let their kid (not the kid's friends) drink it, and monitor how much the kid drinks.

My parents let my sisters and me drink wine on special occasions at an early age. I never liked the taste of wine, so I never enjoyed it. When I went to college, I was surrounded by people who had never been around alcohol, and had no guidance about it. it was forbidden fruit, and they dove right in. All they wanted was to get drunk. Of 3 grown kids, only 1 still drinks. I still see alcohol the way most people see fruitcake: something I try to avoid, especially at holiday time.

Okay, Miss Jordan Leigh Rogers, if it's really you (I don't believe it is) why the hell aren't you in school. Reading, actually trying to decipher what the hell you are saying because of all the misspellings and horrendous punctuation and grammar you should definitely be in school learning the basics, as I stated in my earlier response. And by the way, you probably need this year away from your degenerate mother and let someone else lead you down the right path.

Why would a mother lie like that Knowing she would go to jail? Your a kid, you would have gotten a slap on the wrist, no jail time... Stop lying for your mother because she has a drug and alcohol problem and has for years. So sad. Hope she gets help.