I don't think you can say that the mom didn't try to help him based on the article. She may have tried to help him and it wasn't working so she called the police. No mention of the father in the article--maybe she is struggling to cope as a single mother and the father is the problem. All speculation. |
He's looking at up to 34 years in jail per the article. Crazy. Those kinds of sentences should be for dangerous drugs like heroin, meth, crack etc. |
I doubt it. Drug sentence can be up to that length but its unlikely he will face that kind of result. |
| I can sympathize if this was a first offense, especially if there wasn't injury or death involved. But this is the 2nd time he was busted and now has to pay the price. He didn't learn from his first mistake. |
+1 Again, when it's a white rich kid then it's "he has deep problems". If it's a brown skin boy - regardless of SES - it's "he's terrible, bad parenting, blah blah blah". |
Bet you don't say that about the brown skin kids in gangs.
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more customers |
omg.. you people in your white bubble. I just can't. You must've thought that the ex Stanford swimmer rapist was treated unfairly, too. Two months was just too much, right?
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You think 34 years for selling Xanax is appropriate? Just checking. |
Just for grins, I left my "white bubble" and looked at drug sentencing in DC. https://sentencing.umn.edu/sites/sentencing.umn.edu/files/2010_d.c._issue_paper_2_felony_drug_sentences.pdf 95% is for cocaine, heroin or PCP. 40% got paroled, 15% got split sentences and 45% got jail time. For those that got hail time, the mean sentence length was 9 months. But thinking that the possibility of 34 years in prison for selling 24 Xanax pills is extreme clearly indicates that I'm living in a white bubble. |
There is nothing to say the dealer goes to Winston Churchhill - the unnamed 17 year old buyer does - the 19 yo was just on campus. More concerning was that he was a counselor at Calleva for the past two summers even though he had been busted for marijuana distribution a couple years ago. |
makes you wonder what sort of background check Calleva does if any |
| I have to wonder about this story. DS is a sophomore at Churchill and I have never heard of this kind of problem. All of the kids seem to be excellent, humble, grounded kids who would never do drugs or drink. This sounds like a story I would expect to see from a Wheaton or Einstein or QO. |
Please tell me this is just trolling |
Nothing except the story's headline and the lede. |