For what, they will pay the fine for having an underage drinking party... That is not a jailable offense. |
I'll tell you what disgusts me. Adults served kids alcohol. Nobody has the right to serve somebody else's child alcohol. It is illegal plain and simple. I want to know who this parent is to protect MY child who attends a school in the same cluster. Many of my kids' friends have older siblings who just graduated. |
Hello, Rich people don't care about fines. The killings will continue until guilty parents get jail time for allowing underaged drinking parties in their homes. Plain and Simple. Who's kid will be next? |
Me too!!!!!!! |
seriously, the rich people thing again -- how do you define rich???? |
Rewrite the law. |
And how exactly were the parents funding this?? |
You want a list of every single parent in Potomac they let 18 yos drink in their house? |
True, but I hope they find a way to make the host family an accessory to the homicide -- the host family and the teen that had the party and the person that supplied the alcohol. It just makes me sick. |
As a matter of fact, yes I would like to know that. |
Yes for me too! Don't break the law if you don't want the world to know about it. |
Ask your kids, they know their names. |
Then you need to work to change the law. As the PP says, furnishing alcohol and allowing possession or consumption of alcohol are not jailable offenses. http://www.ncsl.org/research/financial-services-and-commerce/social-host-liability-for-underage-drinking-statutes.aspx |
Don't be so sure. Laws vary by state but a quick Google search pulled up this case. In Pennsylvania, a parent received a prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter after several teenagers died in a drunk-driving accident following a party hosted by the parent. Although the parent didn’t supply the alcohol, the parent knowingly allowed the teenagers to drink alcohol at the party. Source: http://criminal.lawyers.com/criminal-law-basics/parents-responsibility-for-underage-drinking.html |
Exactly. Parents will continue providing the alcohol and allowing the underaged drinking parties UNTIL they risk getting put in jail. Even the fear of 24 hours in jail would be enough for most of them to stop their illegal behavior. |