Parents Behaving Badly

Mom Arrested For Leaving Kids Home Alone:

Sarah Petty of Brevard County, Florida has a fitting name.

She was arrested for leaving her kids home alone for 14 hours. Her 18-month-old went out for a stroll and luckily was unharmed. The 3 year-old stayed home.

So where was mom? Police say she was at another house in the neighborhood after drinking the night before and according to police she was still drunk at noon when police talked to her.

Petty claims she thought the children were with their grandmother who lives next door.

Yeah, like the police have never heard that one before.

Again, your children are more important than getting your drink on. If they’re not then you don’t deserve to have them.

Thanks to LadyJade for the tip.

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Kathleen Butts picked up her kids from daycare on Nov 10, 2009, at 5:15, but she never made it out of the parking lot with them. She did however, manage to find her way into a nearby snowbank, which is where a maintenance worker found her at 7PM. Her two children, 2 and 4 years old, strapped into the car, and had been sitting there for an hour and a half, with the door wide open. Both were cold, and no doubt scared, but after a quick trip to the hospital they were released to other family members, and both of them are doing fine.

It’s a good thing that the maintenance worker found her, or those children could have frozen to death. This happened in New Hampshire, and it was 30 degrees outside.

Butts admitted to drinking before going to get her kids, and is being charged with aggravated DWI, and child endangerment. That said, I have another bone to pick……If Butts was so drunk when she picked up her kids from daycare that she passed out in a snowbank outside, somebody at the daycare had to have noticed. Why in blue blazes was she allowed to take the children from the facility in that condition? Were the workers THAT eager to clock out that they would let a couple of kids go with a drunk? And how is it that none of the workers noticed the car, with it’s door open, when they left for the day? I think the daycare needs to be investigated as well. They are guilty of endangerment just as surely as the mother is. At the very least, the employees need a class or two on how to keep kids safe from idiot parents who show up schnozzled.

Thanks to jakes_daddy for the tip.

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Amber Lee Gandy, 25, of Grand Ronde, Oregon, likes to drink and then go joyriding with her babies in the car. Allegedly. Charges are expected to be filed concerning the accident in which she flipped her SUV upside down in Widow Creek with her children, 2-year old Kylie Gandy, 3-year old Austin Gandy, and six-month old Kameron Gandy in the vehicle.

Luckily, a neighbor happened upon the wreck and was able to extract Kylie and Austin, and the mother. It took a few more minutes before the incubator remembered that she had a third child, who was still in the vehicle, underwater. The hero waded back in to the creek, but by the time he got the baby out, Kameron had no pulse and was not breathing.

Medical personnel managed to revive the infant and he was life-flighted to another hospital in critical condition, and his prognosis has improved since then. No thanks to the idiot who thought that getting her drink on was more important than keeping her kids alive.

Where do these selfish hootchies come from? And why do they have babies that they have no intention of taking proper care of? How hard is it to stay sober, anyway? I do it all the time, so it can’t be that hard. Just say no. Just another public service announcement from your neighborhood crime prevention specialist, Captain Obvious.

I have yet to find an article that gives Amber’s BAC, but the wording in one of the articles makes me wonder if alcohol was the only thing she was under the influence of. According to the second article linked above, “an investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and Oregon State Police revealed that Amber Gandy was under the influence of intoxicants and that alcohol was a contributing factor of the traffic crash.” If alcohol was listed as a ‘factor’, and she was under the influence of ‘intoxicants’ (plural), that leads me to believe that there were other substances that she tested positive for, as well.

Oh, and did I mention that she was driving on a suspended license? Yeah. It has been suspended since 2007. I bet it wasn’t suspended for anything as minor as unpaid traffic tickets, either. Something tells me that this ain’t her first rodeo, if ya know what I mean…..

And just so I don’t get slammed by the ‘double standard’ police….where in the HELL was the father? Surely he knew her license were suspended, and that she had a drinking problem. So why were the kiddies in the car with her? So many questions….anybody have any answers?

I sincerely hope they throw the book at this lush, and keep her away from her kids for a good long time. Like, until they are old enough to drive themselves around.

I’d like to thank Calvena for this tip.

Police: Man left son in semi while visiting a strip club:

39-year-old Donald Crawford of Indianapolis was arrested last week for leaving his 5-year-old son in the cab of his semi while he went and drank at a strip club. Not only was he already allegedly drunk when he got to the club but he also refused to pay for $80 in lap dances and only had one drink. Ladies and gentleman this is only one of the many species of douchebag. The cheapskate at the strip club.

Anyway, after he was thrown out of the club he couldn’t find his truck and called 911 to report it missing. The 911 call is transcribed in the article but the fact that the told the dispatcher that “He was in the vehicle when it was tooken.” Even here in the south that’s not close to proper grammar.

And it gets better. When police finally found Crawford and the truck the truck was unlocked with the keys in the ignition. Luckily his son was unharmed and watching cartoons.

But wait…there’s more. The article says that Crawford was released into the custody of his wife. Does that mean that she bailed him out? Ladies, would you have bailed out your man if he did something like that.

When I was single I went to a lot of strip clubs. After I got married and inherited some new kids I went once and was embarrassed when I came home and my kids said I smelled funny. It was probably the combination of beer and stripper perfume that made me that way.

Thanks to Sara for the tip.

Diane Schuler

Diane Schuler has killed seven people. Four of them were children, and one of them was her own child. Diane was drunk. And stoned. And driving these kids back from a camping trip. There was only one survivor from the horrific crash that occurred after she drove almost two miles on the Taconic Parkway THE WRONG WAY. Her five year old son lived.

Diane killed her three nieces, ages 9, 7, and 5, and killed her own 2-year-old daughter as well. She also killed all three men in the SUV she hit head-on. And she died as well, so she won’t be going to jail for her crimes. Apparently many family members knew she was a drunk and a stoner, and indulged in both vices on a daily basis. Her husband and brother both knew – so I am wondering what in the name of Hades either of them was thinking when they decided to let her drive the kids home from the campground. As we all know, there is no cure for stupidity, but now I guess stupidity has also become a contagious disease. More than one person had to have caught it from her, for them to be able to justify letting her ferry anyone’s kids anywhere – let alone their own.

In addition to the stupidity factor, we can also add a healthy dose of denial. In the immediate aftermath of the accident, Diane’s husband was telling anyone who would listen that his wife didn’t drink at all – she was a teetotaler. The brother hasn’t said much on that topic – only that when she called him 2 hours before the wreck, to tell him she was feeling sick, her speech was slurred, and she was almost incoherent. Yet he still did nothing. I cannot imagine the guilt he must be feeling right now. His wife knew Diane smoked pot on a daily basis, but they were still in the car with the drunk and high idiot. Why?!? Why would you let your kids ride in a vehicle with someone you know does drugs, or drinks to excess?

I have a couple of family members who are not allowed to drive my kids anywhere, because they either drink or do drugs. For years it has caused fights, and bitterness on the part of the ones who were not allowed to drive the kids around. My reply? So freaking what?!?! They are my kids, and I will protect them from whatever I can, whenever I can, and other peoples’ feelings be damned. The family members I am talking about are good people, and I love them. I love them so much that I am not willing to put them in a position where I might have to have them arrested one day. I am not willing to let them drive my kids around, because if there WAS an accident, I would blame them. It wouldn’t matter if the accident was their fault or not – I would blame them because they were impaired. I love them too much to do that. So I don’t let my kids ride with them. Simple, right? I guess not. Not for this family, anyway.

At the time of the crash, Diane had a BAC of .19 – more than twice the legal limit. She also had another 10 ounces of undigested vodka in her stomach, an empty Absolut bottle in the vehicle……and the autopsy also showed high levels of THC. Wow….just wow! And nobody noticed or cared. Un-freakin-believable!

The lives of seven people were snuffed out, and another child was severely injured, because Diane couldn’t wait till she got home to get her drink on.

Although Trench didn’t send this tip to me, I will say thanks to Kathy Thomas, because her tip in another thread led me to this story.

The culprit

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Nicole Gonzalez, 28, has been arrested for DUI – among other things. It seems that she decided a couple of drinks would be a good idea before driving her 10-year-old son home. After initially denying to the hospital staff and authorities that she had been drinking, she admitted to having consumed two pina coladas. Since I have been around people who were drinking before, and have observed their relative mathematical abilities, I would be willing to hazard that the two drinks she claimed to have had might actually have been a square root, or cube root figure instead. Just my guess, though.

In addition to having her 10-year-old in the car, she was also PREGNANT! Maybe it’s just me, but I think getting drunk while pregnant is probably just as bad an idea as driving while drunk – maybe worse. In addition to the danger the unborn baby was in from the accident, this selfish drunk also put her child at risk for FAS. For those readers who don’t know, FAS is birth defect caused by consuming alcohol while pregnant. It can range in severity from mild developmental delays to severe and debilitating physical and mental deficiencies.

In addition to the DUI charge, she was also driving with an already suspended or revoked license. The police, being thorough, tacked on an additional charge for that as well. Good job, guys! It seems that Nicole had plowed her auto into a fire hydrant – you know how those hydrants just LOVE to jump out into traffic! – and had also been seen swerving into oncoming traffic more than once.

After being taken to the hospital to be checked for injuries, she became abusive with the hospital staff. Wow! I would’ve never seen that one coming! Not a drunk who is abusive! She also made the comment that she hoped that she would have a miscarriage so that she could “sue everyone”, according to the report. What a great mom! Wishing for the death of your child so that you can receive monetary compensation. My head spins.

Thanks to Michelle for the tip, and you can thank Trench for the title.

Stupid Mother #1

……..Nine besides the driver, eight days of drinking, seven endangerment charges, six times the legal limit, five seats to sit in, four other charges, three injured children, two stupid mothers, one PT Cruiser, ….and a partridge in a pear tree.

OK, so it’s a bit early for Christmas tunes, and I fudged a little on the number of days they’d been drinking and their BAC, but the rest of it is true. Sad, huh?

I think we may have found someone even more idiotic than Carmen Huertas. Two someones, actually. One mother was driving drunk, and the other mother knew her one year old twins were in the vehicle with the drunk and seven other people. Yup….ten people in a PT Cruiser. Those things only have five seats you know….At least the adults in the vehicle were fair in deciding who was going to be the safest for this trip, as not a single person in the PT was buckled up. There were seven children, so if I did my math correctly,then that means there were 3 adults in the car who should have known this was an extremely bad idea. Apparently they were all as stupid as the driver (maybe as drunk?).

Anyway, one of the adults got into a fight with someone outside the car, and when the cops were called – and showed up – the driver, Nancy Lopez, 28, took off. That’s when the first child fell out. After the police pulled Lopez over, a witness said that two other children had fallen out a few seconds before. One of the children who fell out (the three year old) belonged to Lopez, but the one-year-old twins belonged to 19-year old Vanessa Ramirez, who knew they were riding with a drunk. And she thought that was OK????

The driver, it turns out, had no business driving that night for several reasons – the least of which was her drunkenness. The twatwaffle also had a suspended license. Anyone wanna guess why her license was suspended? My guess would be that she had a previous DUI, but since no reason was given in the paper, that is only speculation on my part.

The 3-year old who fell out got a cut on his eye, and was treated and released from the hospital, and placed in state custody. The 1-year old twins who fell out are still in the hospital; one is in critical condition, and the other is there for observation. The other four children in the car were also taken into state custody, though no mention of their parentage has been made thus far.

Both FBOs have been charged with seven counts of child endangerment. In addition, Lopez has also been charged with seven counts of unrestrained minor in a car, and one count each of DUI, driving with a suspended license, no headlights after dark, and open container. I would imagine if the critical twin doesn’t make it, they will charge her with vehicular homicide as well. I think they should charge all of the adults involved with attempted murder – since they all put these kids at risk. Too bad the DA doesn’t take suggestions from me, huh?

I’d like to thank Christina and Trench for the tips.

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I had to write this one up for y’all, and I want each and every one of you to thank April for sending me the tip, and the title for my article. I used the title she provided, because when I read it, I fell on the floor laughing, and couldn’t even begin my article for ten minutes or so. Every time I glanced at the title, I had another giggle fit. I think I may have ruptured a kidney…..I definitely peed myself! hahahaha

I also wanted to do this one because it didn’t actually involve a child getting hurt or dead. And the parental unit was arrested anyway. Win-win scenario.

It seems Nekisha Smith got hungry and wanted some Mickey D’s. So she did what many other hungry people would have done….she got in her car and drove to Ronald McDonaldland. And, good mom that she is, she took her 5 year old son with her. The only problem was….she had already had a few too many McBeers. She went to the drive thru window, and the observant attendant noticed that her words were slurred, and she reeked of booze. Niiiiice. You know you’ve had too many when the attendant can smell you from INSIDE the restaurant, and over the smell of the fry grease, and other food…..

Nekisha then proceeded to order items which were not on the menu (“double chicken burger thing”, anyone?), and ask for other items she had not even ordered. The attendant asked her to pull forward while her food was being cooked, and promptly called police.

When the cops arrived, Smith was sitting in her car eating, and tried to convince the officer that she wasn’t drunk, but had been drinking the day before. What? She didn’t shower? Ewwwww…..Anyway, she failed every single field sobriety test, but refused to blow the required amount of air into the breathalyzer. And STILL she blew a .13. That’s 1 1/2 times the legal limit, kiddies. Just think what it would have been if she had done it properly. Can anyone say McSnockered? How about McStupid? She was arrested, and her husband was called to come get the child and the car. Smith also had a previous DUI (2006) which involved property damage.

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Sorry for waiting so long to post this. April sent me a tip about this on Monday, but until today, I could not find an article saying that the driver had a child of her own – only that she had killed someone else’s child.

Anyway, the innocent looking, sweet-faced thing at the top is Carmen Huertas. On Saturday Night (actually midnight-thirty Sunday morning), the drunken sot got behind the wheel of her Mercury Sable, with seven little girls, all between the ages of 11 and 14, riding as passengers. One of the girls was her daughter. Another was 11 year old Leandra Rosado. At the time of the wreck Carmen’s blood alcohol level was .132.

There are several levels of ‘wrong’ to this incident, so I will take my time and discuss each of them. I am nothing, if not thorough…..

First, the girls were all at Huertas’ house for a sleepover being held for Huertas’ own 11 year old daughter, when Carmen decided to go to a party being held by her ex-boyfriend at his place. Am I the only person who sees the problem with this? Let’s see…I let my child invite over several friends, and THEN load them all up and take them to a party where alcohol will be served. Anybody besides me think this is a supremely bad idea? Anyone? Anyone? Ferris? I’m not sure if it’s illegal to take 11- to 14-year olds to a party where alcohol is being served, but it is certainly not wise. Or ethical. I wonder how many of the parents gave her permission to take their kids to a party, hmmm?

Second, the car that she loaded the seven children in was a Mercury Sable. Does anyone see a problem with that? Would it help if I told you that three of the girls were thrown from the car when it wrecked? Would anybody like to guess why? That’s right! There are only five seats in a Mercury Sable. That means only five seat belts. Three of the girls were riding unrestrained. Wait! – isn’t there a law that says children under the age of sixteen have to be buckled in? Yeah, I thought so. So now in addition to being irresponsible, she is now breaking the law.

Third, upon arrival at the party, she decided that drinking was OK, even though she knew she was going to be responsible for getting the children home later. Again, the drinking in and of itself may not have been illegal, but it was definitely not a smart choice.

Fourth, after drinking herself stupid, she piled all seven girls back in her Sable, three of them sans seat belts, and began the drive home. Who wants to guess whether driving drunk is legal in New York City? Yeah. It’s not. That’s two laws she’s broken, now. Plus four kinds of stupid.

But that’s not all – she also drove at speeds in excess of 80mph. I’m fairly sure the speed limit in NYC is not 80, as a matter of fact, I’d be surprised if it’s over 55. Another law broken, another level of idiocy. Where does it end? Unfortunately not there, because then Carmen’ own daughter began pleading with her mother to slow down. You would think that, as a mother, the pleas of her daughter might have some effect on Huertes, but they did not. The response of the tanked-up tramp was to laugh and say, “You think this is fast? Just wait until we get on the highway.” Absolutely sickening. You can find the entire timeline of the evening as reconstructed by witnesses here.

When the deadly drunk lost control of her car, it then rolled several times and slammed into a tree, ejecting three of the girls. See, kids….you see why there are seat belt laws? The three without seat belts flew from the car. If you ask me the woman should wrap her arms around her knees and kiss her own ass that she only killed ONE child that night. It could have been infinitely worse.

I’m sure Carmen then had the audacity to cry and look pitiful at the scene, hoping it would gain her some sympathy. She has been charged with driving while intoxicated, and vehicular manslaughter. I, personally, think she should be charged with murder. She knew her actions could kill someone, and she didn’t care. By my count, she is now up to four laws broken, and six ways to stupid.

Huertas sustained only a broken arm in the accident. No big surprise there. Usually those who drive drunk and kill others end up with the least injuries in the accident. All that alcohol relaxes them to the point that they just ‘flow with it’, and bounce instead of breaking. Too bad.

And now Carmen, who is in the hospital, has said she wants to kill herself. Can I get a great big, “AWWWWWW, poor baby!” Yeah, I didn’t think so. I hope they plaster her cell with photos of the little girl she killed, so she has to look at her every day for her entire sentence. I hope they are also kind enough to get a tape recording of Leandra’s father’s voice, listing all of the wonderful qualities his daughter possessed, and make Huertas listen to it every day, all day long, as well.

I’d like to thank April not only for the tip, but also for allowing me to use one of her favorite quotes in this article. She knows which one it is.

Mom’s designated driver: her 13-year-old son:

32-year-old Heather Choulos and her boyfriend got bombed at a restaurant in San Anselmo, California. Both have prior convictions for DUI. Rather than doing the sensible thing of calling a cab or not getting drunk when they know they have to drive they allegedly made Choulos’ 13-year-old son drive.

Apparently he couldn’t handle the pressure of driving a Land Rover with two drunk adults in the vehicle and stopped the SUV in the middle of the street.

Good for him, he probably saved everyone’s life by doing that.

A 3 year old boy and his 4 year old sister were found trying to cross a busy Broward country street alone and barefoot.  I good samaritan stopped them. 

It turns out their mother, Brenda Lee Duclos, 44, got in the the mini van with the toddlers to go pick up their older sister from school.  She started the van and then passed out … DRUNK.

After a couple of hours the toddlers climbed out of the vehicle and went to find their older sister. 

The sister had walked to an uncle’s house when Mom never showed up.

Brenda Lee has been charged with DUI and child endangerment

The kids are with their father … who said his wife is stupid and hopes something good will come of this and she will change.

AND WHAT IF SHE DOESN’T … WHAT THEN?!?

Thanks LadyJade for the tip

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Thae boy’s name is Nathan Nadzeika, and he’s 4 weeks old. I originally posted about this story here.

The boy is now in the custody of the state DCF, and the twat is still being held on $100,000.00 bond. Apparently the baby also had bite marks on his body, and crack pipes were also found at the residence. So the egg donor could still face more charges (I hope).

The father still has not been charged (or if he has, I haven’t been able to find a story on it), but I think he should be. He obviously knew “da crack ho was tokin’ it up in da house”, and he didn’t take the baby out of there. He should be charged with neglect, at the very least.

Thanks to Trench for the tip.

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Bryan and Tina Vannoy…Yup they obviously aren’t pinched for funds because no only are they driving a BMW but they had enough to sit in a swanky West Omaha Martini Bar and get wasted…

The Bartenders watched them as they would occasionally go outside and check in the 4 month old infant they left in the car (with the the tinted windows rolled up …of course).  The Mother brought a baby bottle in with her, but no baby.

Police report that they were both drunk when they were arrested; the egg donor had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit.

Man crashes ATV with toddler on board:

I couldn’t find an article that said what the relationship is between the suspect and the child buut for the sake of this post let’s assume he’s either the breeder or bad boyfriend.

Anyway, 36-year-old John Pollard is accused of taking off drunk on an ATV with a 23-moth-old toddler in his arms. Since he was allegedly drinking you can pretty much guess what happens next.

The ATV took a spill. No that’s mot right, the ATV is just a machine. Pollard allegedly rolled the ATV sending both him and the child flying. Of course no helmets were being worn and the drunk comes out of it without a scratch. The child was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

So far no charges have been filed but I imagine they will be.

Thanks to Layla for the tip.

Woman in drunken breast-feeding case ordered to jail:

That’s 26-year-old Stacey Anvarinia of North Dakota. She was previously convicted of child neglect charges for breastfeeding her baby while drunk. A compassionate judge ordered her to get treatment for her drinking problem in order for her to avoid jail.

Well, she never got the chance to go to treatment because later that night she was arrested for slashing a truck tire…wait for it…while drunk.

The treatment offer was revoked and she was sent to the slammer.

Yet another person who cares more about getting their drink on then caring about their own kids.