Police say a Massachusetts woman allowed her 2-year-old daughter to sip her margarita at a restaurant and poured some of it into the girl's sippy cup. Forty-one-year-old Sheldy Nelson of Lynn, Massachusetts pleaded not guilty on February 24, 2015 to child endangerment in a Salem district court. She was charged in connection with the August 2014 incident. The judge set her bond at $1,000.
A witness told police that Nelson ignored two warnings from the restaurant staff to stop giving her daughter sips of the alcohol. Both the mother and her daughter appeared lethargic and were taken to a hospital where medical personnel found alcohol in the toddler's system. Police found the sippy cup in Nelson's bag. It smelled of alcohol. The girl was placed in state custody. [In July 2015, the judge agreed to drop the charges against Nelson if she took a parenting class and agreed to random drug testing for a period of three months.]
"Mom Let 2-Year-Old Sip Margarita," huffingtonpost.com, February 28, 2015
A witness told police that Nelson ignored two warnings from the restaurant staff to stop giving her daughter sips of the alcohol. Both the mother and her daughter appeared lethargic and were taken to a hospital where medical personnel found alcohol in the toddler's system. Police found the sippy cup in Nelson's bag. It smelled of alcohol. The girl was placed in state custody. [In July 2015, the judge agreed to drop the charges against Nelson if she took a parenting class and agreed to random drug testing for a period of three months.]
"Mom Let 2-Year-Old Sip Margarita," huffingtonpost.com, February 28, 2015
I have been saying this for years and my mom did same thing before me: parents do no know how to parent. Kids are having kids, women are having children they really don't want or they have kids to keep up with Jones's.
ReplyDeleteI wi stick my neck out and bet that mom didn't have a great childhood either. The last few generations have produced the most lacks parenting in history and it isn't stopping. We need to corral those important things back to a home base and get our priorities straight. All I can do is pray, hope others do too.