Parents Are Serving Time for Giving Alcohol to Teens
Who Are Not Their Own.
The first year although we didn't invite any of our friends teens they came anyway. Before we knew it they were taking Mike's Hard Lemonade outside and walking along the rocky shore with it. My husband and I wanted to go ballistic but we didn't. We did say that we don't approve of underage drinking in our house especially since they aren't our kids.
We were shot down by their reciting that as long as the parents were there it was ok by law. I did a lot of research and at least in MA that is what the law says. Still the following year we more strongly said that anyone under the age of 21 would not be served alcohol and it would be confiscated. Ok so we sound like the police but if it saves one death then it is fine with me.
A 16-year old boy from Georgia named Garret Reed, crashed his car into an oncoming vehicle. Reed was killed. Police thought that the 16 year old had been drinking. Kecia Evangela Whitfield, 43, is being charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor and reckless conduct.
It seems that Ms. Whitfield is the mother of a classmate who did serve alcohol to the 16 year old. Whitfield has been released on a $10,000 bond and will go to court in April.
If Whitfield is convicted she could receive up to a year in jail and fines that could reach thousands of dollars.
Toxicology reports for Reed will be released in about a month and a half. Parents are starting to think about what this all means.
Most importantly that they are the parents and not these children's friends. If the kids say they hate their parents and all the other parents let them well tell them that this is your house and your rule. If you do not have too many rules in your house underage drinking should not come as a shock when it is not allowed.
At least ten states including Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico and Georgia (I'll add Massachusetts) allow parents to give their own child alcohol. It is illegal to give alcohol to someone else's child. In fact in January a Massachusetts court sentenced a mother to jail for serving alcohol to minors at a party in her home. A teenage boy died in an auto accident after leaving that party.
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Post a CommentGreat write up.
Opps to continue to underage kids.
I totally agree...nobody should be giving alcohol...
I agree BUT what if the parents and kids are in someone the home of someone else?
This could bring up some interesting and controversial debates. I don't think anyone has the right to give alcohol to someone else's children. It should be the parents decision.