Oops! Wrong Victim!
Michael Dunn
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That friendly looking fella up there is firefighter Michael Dunn, 43. This is gonna be one of those stories that will make you say, “Wow! That might actually be funny, if it wasn’t so stupid!”
It seems Mike and the wife were arguing over bills on Halloween, so Mike thought he would help diffuse the situation by putting half a tablet of Lexapro in the little woman’s Earl Grey, to ‘calm her down’. No matter that it had been prescribed to him, and might have helped even more if it had been taken by him. Since it had been prescribed to him, I can only assume that a doctor somewhere had determined that he needed to be on it.
Anyway, Mikey-boy drugged the tea, and sat back to wait for it to kick in. His wife had just returned from trick-or-treating with their 3-year-old son, and had made the hot tea to help warm up, and she shared it with the baby, because he was cold, too. Oops! I’m pretty sure that Lexapro’s not good for a 3-year old in any dosage, let alone half of an adult strength tablet.
Mrs. Dunn became suspicious when she noticed a white powdery substance around the child’s mouth, and she asked her hubby if he had put something in the tea. He tried to tell her that it must just be undissolved sugar. Did I mention that Mrs. Dunn is a police detective? No? Well, she is. I hear those cops are pretty smart…..she didn’t even consider her husband’s version, but instead wiped the child’s mouth, and saved the tissue with the residue. Then she found Mike’s prescription, and he finally admitted what he had done. Like I said…those cops are pretty smart.
Mrs. Dunn then called the (on-duty) police, and had this 18-year veteran of the Fire Department arrested. It seems Mike has had a previous domestic abuse arrest involving his first wife. He threw a bag of laundry at his 5-year old daughter, and threw his wife to the ground; but managed to have the charge dropped after staying out of trouble for seven months. Another fine example of the judicial system’s lenience leading to further domestic incidents.
Mike has now been charged with placing foreign objects in edibles, which carries a max sentence of 18 months. That probably means he’ll get nothing more than probation for this incident.
Both the mother and child were unharmed, but that still does not excuse or mitigate his behavior in any way, IMO. The child drinking the tea might have been unintentional, but his lying about the drug afterward WAS intentional. He knew the child had ingested the drug, and still lied to his wife about it – not knowing what it might do to the boy. That’s reckless endangerment, in my book.
Thanks to jj for this tip.
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November 13th, 2009 at 11:12 am
I can’t even take half a Lexapro, it puts me to sleep and gives me AWFUL headaches. And I am not 3 years old.
Poor kid probably had really weird dreams too
November 13th, 2009 at 11:22 am
I know some of his and his wife’s confidental work information, and while I can’t say anything specific, I sure as shit don’t want to lose my job, let me just say that this guy’s a pretty fucked up individual.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
who gives their 3 year old earl grey? thats full of caffeen.. not to mention it was night time. Maybe a cup of cammomile etc but earl grey? I know I know I am not blaming the mother its just weird to me.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Halloween WAS on a saturday this year… Let’s just assume it was sort of early and she just gave the child a sip to warm him up. At least she didn’t stand for the shit her asshat hubby was trying to pull. Kudos to her. We have seen some pretty stupid whores on here that stand by the men that murdered and raped thier child. I would actually like to shake this woman’s hand for not being one of those dumb c*nts.
November 14th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Also, Earl Grey does come in green tea and decaf. It’s just as safe to assume it was one of these as it is to assume it was the regular kind, so that’s kind of a moot point.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Although I don’t do it, some parents give their kids Dr. Pepper and Coke (and other things with caffeine), before they are even a year old, gby. I had an aunt who started giving her kids Coca Cola in their bottles when they were about 6 months old. I imagine the tea has less caffeine than soda would, and maybe that was the only hot drink in the house. Who knows?
Personally, MY kids are hyper enough without any caffeine or outside stimulants, lol. I try to limit their sugar intake as well….
November 14th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Actually, a small amount of coco-cola is helpful for children with an upset stomach. My son had a stomach bug last winter and spent half the night throwing up all over the place. The cola helped to slow that down and eased the dry heaves.
Other than that, though, my son has never had another sip. He’s also hyper enough without the caffeine. Unfortunately, I can’t drink a “coffee milk” without him begging for some.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:36 am
At 6 months of age my little angel was the WORST sleeper…I can’t imagine how much worse she would be after a bottle of coke!!!!!
November 13th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I’ve read articles that promote small amounts of caffeine for ADHD symptom children; however, the majority of articles suggest eliminating caffeine due to a risk of caffeine poisoning. I have seen children 2 & under consuming soda in their bottles. That floors me. Not only are these parents filling their children with useless calories and promoting childhood obesity and related diseases, but they are also causing significant damage to the child’s dental health.
But, I digress… The dad in this article is an idiot. As a firefighter, he KNEW better. Kudos to the police detective mother who didn’t let the interrogation drop until she got the correct answer. Hopefully Mr. Dumbazz will get some serious help before he crosses the line and causes injury or death to his family. Let’s face it, he’s not going to get much jail time.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
My son HATES soda. He has never likes it. BUt he DOES like iced tea. I never sweeten it with sugar though. I guess I’m lucky.
November 13th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
I’ve actually seen the caffiene trick work with an ADHD kid. Before they got my oldest nephew on medication for his ADHD, he would get small amounts of coffee and it made him less symptomatic. MOst ADHD meds prescribed nowadays are stimulants, as is caffiene.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Lexapro is a medication for depression that takes about 2-3 weeks to build up in your system before you really start noticing anything. I’m sure the higher the dosage, the quicker or more potent the response, however. So, if he did want his wife to chill out, he should probably know more about what he is taking and how it works.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
‘The first time a man hits you, it’s his fault. The second time he hits you, it’s your fault.’ This woman stayed with him after he assualted their 5 year old, yet somehow HE’S the one at fault. She should be locked up along with him.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Cathlene: The woman he’s married to now is not the same woman he hit, and whose child he previously assaulted. The article clearly states that that was his FIRST wife.
This woman does not need to be in jail – she needs to be given a freakin’ medal for having this idiot arrested.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
yeah, i have adhd and drank coffee while in elem school to help me focus….but never at night. Anywho, kudos to the mom for standing up for herself and her son!
November 13th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Chocolate has caffeine in it too. She shared her tea with her three year old because he was cold. Or because he wanted it and she wasn’t up for the argument.
He’s not going to get caffiene poisoning from a half of a cup of tea! He’s not going to be dehydrated, become addicted, and he’s not going to spontaneously launch into space. He may or may not even have trouble sleeping; many kids drugs -including caffeine- have the opposite effect so it may put him to sleep.
If you want to blame the mom you should blame her for being with a child and wife abuser, but if the charges were dropped maybe there was no record for her to find.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:58 am
hear-hear…
Mothers get a pretty raw deal most of the time…we get fat, we have our vagina’s stretched so much they resemble the cross city tunnel (or you end up with a giant scar across your belly), if you choose not to breast feed you are a monster for depriving your child of mother nature’s best but if you DO breast feed then you are only doing it to make the bottle feeders fooel bad. If you work you are selfish. If you DON’T work you are lazy.
Need I go on?
The mother gave him a few sips of Earl Grey tea (ewwwwwww, bergamot is GROSS)…she didn’t give him a shot of vodkaa with a beer chaser, she didn’t pack him up a cone & help him hold the bong, she just gave him a warm drink…it could have been a hot chocolate which has almost as much caffine & doesn’t come in a decaf version like Earl Grey does but that would have been completely OK because Hot Chocolate, in spite of the sugar & caffine content, is considered to be a child’s drink…so what the fuck are we all crapping on about?????
November 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Hey Skye…..based on your assessment of the tags mothers are labeled with, I am a lazy woman who likes to make the non-breastfeeding mothers feel bad, and I have a ‘cross city tunnel’ between my legs. LOL. Go me!
November 14th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
It’s funny how the commenting became a discussion about who gives their children what instead of lambasting the monster that thought it was okay to drug his wife and put his three year old in danger.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Well get used to it, Frances. I learned a long time ago that having a vagina means you’re always in the wrong. Look at the working mom vs. SAHM thing for one example. And the guy in this story is an idiot. Like someone said antidepressants take WEEKS to kick in. Glad he was arrested though. If he wasn’t such an idiot he may have drugged her with something that actually did something.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:52 am
If a child was not involved this story would be SOOOOOO funny…
1. Lexapro doesn’t work like valium…I was on it for 12 months & it took a good month of taking it to kick in so he really doesn’t know much about what he is putting into his body.
2. He is married to a detective & yet he didn’t think she might notice something amiss with her tea?
3. She found out & busted him…what a woman! If I was a man (or a lesbian) & single I would totally look this woman up & ask her out!!!!!
It would only be funnier if she just flat out shot his worthless arse instead of calling the cops!