Relatives Video 10-Month-Old Drinking Gin, Police Arrest Aunt, Uncle and Mom
When I’m blogging at Teacher Smackdown about teachers sexually abusing students, I’m always amazed how stupid perps are about evidence. They send sexually explicit emails and letters to the victims. They IM them about sex. They send naked pictures of themselves to the students’ cell phones. And then they brag about having sex with their underage student on Facebook.
So when I hear relatives making a video showing a 10-month-old drinking gin and juice, and the relatives sitting laughing, I’m not surprised. People are sooooo stoooooopid.
In Bradenton, Florida, the boy’s aunt, Heather L. Moore, 21, and his uncle, John D. Bell, 45, were arrested on felony-level child abuse charges. The boy’s mom, a 16-year-old teenage runaway, was booked and detained at a juvenile detention center on charges of abuse and neglect.
The girl’s mom, Betty O’Neil, 37, found the tapes when she picked up her daughter’s belongings from a woman with whom she had been staying. O’Neil told police that her grandson drank to the point of intoxication. She also found photographs of the boy drinking alcohol.
Police believe the boy’s mom was the one taking the video. She has acknowledged what she did was wrong. Even so, the toddler is now in state custody.
