Mom sentenced Because 14-year-old Can't Hold Liquor
source: http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/05/karen_christine_downs_faces_sentencing_because_14-year-o...
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Let's see, what games do 14-year-old girls play at birthday parties? Ouija board? Too occult. Twister? Too grope-y.
I know, thought 44-year-old Karen Christine Downs. We'll play Who Can Chug This Glass of Vodka the Fastest for Ten Dollars!
That brilliant plan, dreamed up in February 2009 at her daughter's birthday party, caused two teenage girls to be hospitalized and will likely cost Downs shock jail time and up to five years' probation, according to Platte County prosecutor Eric Zahnd.
Downs pleaded guilty to felony child endangerment yesterday.
Kansas City police responded to Downs' home at 1615 NW 55th Terrace at 2 a.m. on February 22, 2009, and found 60 to 70 empty beer bottles and several bottles of bourbon, vodka and whiskey scattered throughout the basement. Six girls, all between 13 and 14 years of age, admitted they'd been drinking. One girl said she'd drank a beer and nine or 10 shots of vodka. Two girls were taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. One was unconscious; her blood alcohol content was later determined to be .218 (unofficially known as "Chris Farley level").
The girls told officers that Downs offered them shots of vodka if they didn't tell their parents. When they ran out of alcohol, Downs and another woman, Kelsee Guest, asked the girls to pony up for more and went on a liquor run. Guest has also been charged with felony child endangerment and is scheduled to be in court October 25.
Downs' sentencing is scheduled for July 8. Zahnd, who personally prosecuted the case, says he'll ask for a sentence of the maxiumum shock jail time and five years of probation, "so her daughter will be as close to 21 as possible before her mother is allowed to posess alcohol."
I know, thought 44-year-old Karen Christine Downs. We'll play Who Can Chug This Glass of Vodka the Fastest for Ten Dollars!
That brilliant plan, dreamed up in February 2009 at her daughter's birthday party, caused two teenage girls to be hospitalized and will likely cost Downs shock jail time and up to five years' probation, according to Platte County prosecutor Eric Zahnd.
Downs pleaded guilty to felony child endangerment yesterday.
Kansas City police responded to Downs' home at 1615 NW 55th Terrace at 2 a.m. on February 22, 2009, and found 60 to 70 empty beer bottles and several bottles of bourbon, vodka and whiskey scattered throughout the basement. Six girls, all between 13 and 14 years of age, admitted they'd been drinking. One girl said she'd drank a beer and nine or 10 shots of vodka. Two girls were taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. One was unconscious; her blood alcohol content was later determined to be .218 (unofficially known as "Chris Farley level").
The girls told officers that Downs offered them shots of vodka if they didn't tell their parents. When they ran out of alcohol, Downs and another woman, Kelsee Guest, asked the girls to pony up for more and went on a liquor run. Guest has also been charged with felony child endangerment and is scheduled to be in court October 25.
Downs' sentencing is scheduled for July 8. Zahnd, who personally prosecuted the case, says he'll ask for a sentence of the maxiumum shock jail time and five years of probation, "so her daughter will be as close to 21 as possible before her mother is allowed to posess alcohol."
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