Jaimie Etkin: The Devil Wore Manolos
Drunk mom tries to pick up kid
Filed under: Just For Moms, Toddlers Preschoolers, Preschoolers, Alcohol & Drugs
A Reno, Nevada woman showed up at her daughter's preschool "grossly intoxicated" and demanded her daughter. When school officials refused to release the girl to the woman, she went on a rampage, smashing a window with a brick and assaulting the school staff. The police were called and the woman was arrested. The child was later released to her father.Sadly, sometimes our children's caregivers have to face situations like this. I don't know that I'll ever understand why a parent would allow themselves to get wasted when they know they're going to taking care of (let alone picking up) their kid. I mean, I like good beer and wine as much as the next guy, and I see nothing wrong with having one or two, even while watching your kids, but one must avoid becoming impaired.
Of course, the real victim here is the kid who loses her mom in all this. I hope that perhaps a bit of time cooling off -- and sobering up -- will give this mother a chance to realize what's really important.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 4)
4-19-2008 @ 6:33AM
Bob said...30 days in jail may sober up this idiot.
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4-19-2008 @ 7:25AM
Wendy said...All nasty comments and political opinions aside, was her daughter at preschool so she would have time to be a barfly? Is this done daily? And that day, did she just have a bit more than usual? Makes you wonder if anything else happens behind closed doors. I hope CYS takes this one seriously. And the file doesn't just get put on someones desk....has happened before...will happen again!!!
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4-20-2008 @ 1:58PM
niskydance0708 said...Have you ever thought that maybe she was having some sourt of troubles within her family and that she was under a bit of stress
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4-19-2008 @ 7:45AM
Parissa said...So what if she was? I had difficulties during the years my children were little ~ like most people: busy schedules; money woes; job loss; overstepping in-laws; unexpected illnesses and other such issues that taxed one's endurance; etc. ~ but I can assure you I didn't 'drink' myself into oblivian over them ~ nor did I ever show up at my daughter's school dead drunk and become so disruptive that the police had to be called!
4-19-2008 @ 8:30AM
gil Pizarro said...nisky please. Don't enable this loser. She could have killed her if she picked her up and drove home. NO excuse! She could have killed you driving or our family.
4-19-2008 @ 8:35AM
Jhawk said...Exactly what does THAT have to do with anything? What are you, an ACLU moron lawyer?
4-19-2008 @ 8:59AM
JustJ said...and your saying b/c she is having some problems it's o.k. to pick her daughter up impaired? What kind of problems is she going to face if she puts that child in danger and the child gets hurt? is it still o.k.? are you making any sense at all?
4-19-2008 @ 7:32AM
Carol Rusk said...if she was sober enough to remember where her child was, she should have thought about the effect it would have on picking her up in that condition!!!!!!!
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4-19-2008 @ 8:06AM
stumar said...no comment at this time
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4-21-2008 @ 4:55PM
deb said...This just happened in our area, Quakertown PA. Here thhe woman was picking up her kid from school.....but she alsoo happened to have 4 kids with her that she was babysitting! Sad for those kids....
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4-19-2008 @ 8:33AM
Leroy said...Thank you Thank you TYTYTY GOD this idiot woman isn't in Alabama.
We get a bad enough rap as it is.
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4-19-2008 @ 8:43AM
susan said...Nisky-maybe she was under some stress but that is not an excuse for her behavior. When you are a parent you have responsbilities to someone besides yourself and your childs needs should come before your own. There are much better ways to deal with stress than to drink. And I agree 100% with Gil, she could have killed an innocent person or family on her drive to the preschool. She needs helps..
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4-19-2008 @ 8:48AM
mike said...Why is it that most people in our society are still unaware that drug abuse and alcoholism are diseases? This woman's actions do nothing more than demonstrate she has a disease and needs help. I am not making any excuses for her nor am I excusing her actions. The simple fact is she has a problem and her family needs to get her into a program.
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4-19-2008 @ 11:24AM
Caralee said...Good comment, Mike-I had to hit a pretty bad bottom before I got help, but have now been alcohol free for 11 years-but still party like it's 1994!!!
4-19-2008 @ 8:53AM
Kim said...THE WOMAN IS A DRUNK! HELLOOOOOOOOO
No matter how often she sobers up she will always be a drunk. Booze comes before logic or child or family. TAKE THE KID AWAY FROM THIS SCREWED UP MENTAL CASE and stop the cycle of abuse. Until the child agencies wake up and pull these poor kids away from these abusing psychos kids lives will be ruined waiting for the drunks to sober up. THEY DONT AND WONT UNTIL FORCED
INTO IT. THEY LOVE THE JUICE MORE THAN ANYONE OR ANYTHING! Stick that woman in jail now! Get the kid into therapy and let the mother know if she doesnt get into treatment and stop drinking she will lose her kid. Or would you rather wait for this selfish psycho to run a kid over on the road or throw a brick at her kid. That kind of rage while drunk is an example of what the poor child deals with in private daily. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MILD DRUNK. THEY ARE ALL BULLIES, WHO ARE MISERABLE , NASTY AND VISCIOUS WHEN THEY DONT GET WHAT THEY WANT WHICH IS USUALLY THE MAGIC COUPLE- ATTENTION AND MORE BOOZE!!!
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4-19-2008 @ 11:23AM
Sherry said...Have a few issues about alcohol do we? Sheesh!
4-19-2008 @ 2:04PM
Kim said..."Sherry said...
Have a few issues about alcohol do we? Sheesh!"
Hey Sherry- " I " dont have any issues about alcohol at all- because I dont drink and I am responsible and loving to my children. My heart breaks for the children of these low lifes diseased or not. They suck everyone into their drunken hole- for what? However more interesting is your response which is very telling-COULD YOU BE ANOTHER DRUNK IN DENIAL WHO SEES NOTHING WRONG WITH GETTING WASTED AND TAKING YOUR KID TO SCHOOL THEN THROWING A BRICK THROUGH THE SCHOOL BUILDING WINDOW.................SHEESH INDEED.......GET SOBER SHERRY YOU MIGHT BE SHOCKED AT HOW THE REST OF THE SOBER WORLD THINKS! HOPE YOU DIDNT PICK THE SCREEN NAME SHERRY WHILE SIPPING ON IT SWEETIE!!! LOL
4-19-2008 @ 9:03AM
Elaine said...I feel very sorry for this little girl. When I was little I was put in day care and preschool and I know my parents drank. However, thankfully I normally lived within walking distance to the buildings and my mother never did anything this stupid. But the mother has no reason having children if this is what she is going to do.
And to Niskydance0708-a troubled mother under stress doesn't get massively drunk and then pick up her child from school like that. The adults were trying to keep the child safe and the drunken mother went crazy and had to be arrested. Sounds kind of stupid huh? Would you allow this to happen if you worked at a daycare or preschool and had the option of sending a little child with a drunk mother?
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4-19-2008 @ 9:03AM
G.L. said...I had an ex-neighbor who was such a vodka addict that she locked her pre-schooler in the house (for the ump-tenth time).The fire dept. and police dept. came and broke in the house,and the state took custody.Because I was a witness, they forced me to come to court and testify.They told her,on two seperate occasions in court,that if she would just show up SOBER they would release the little girl back into her custody.....Well,she didn't show up sober.As a matter of fact,she didn't show up at all !! On neither occasion !! Classic DEADBEAT MOM . (She said she was having a hard time accepting that her boyfriend had just been given a long, drug-related prison sentence)
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4-20-2008 @ 8:48AM
Michael said...Some people just shouldn't drink. Period.
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