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Returning home from my company picnic yesterday, with my two thirteen-year-old nieces with me, I jokingly asked if either of them had their driver's license so that they could drive at least some of the way home and I could take a nap. (Neither one did, of course, and, really, I was just kidding.) In Texas, though, that's not something they kid about.Police officers in the East Texas town of Longview noticed a minivan turn into a driveway and bump into the house.
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On the one hand, you have to give Rosenberg credit for not wanting to risk drinking and driving, but on the other hand... Perhaps it would be best if she just stayed away from the bars altogether. In the meantime, Child Protective Services is looking into the situation.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 3)
8-16-2008 @ 10:12PM
tiggerr105 said...Yay Im the first comment
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8-17-2008 @ 11:29AM
RK said...And CYS will take your kids for disciplining them, but not for being a bad example. Go figure.
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8-18-2008 @ 9:21PM
Sparkles said...CYS has never taken anyone's children for disciplining them. Unless of course, your idea of "discipline" involves violence and abuse.
8-19-2008 @ 5:43PM
RK said...I'm just saying, CYS in this country is broken. I know plenty of cases where good parents had their kids taken and crappy ones kept them. I remember growing up and watching countless drug raids at the house on the corner and it took CYS 15 years to figure out that it probably wasn't the best environment for the 9 kids that lived there which consequently lead you to paying for 7 more people admitted to the system. The last 2 are unknown yet, but you see my point. And CYS threatened to take my kids just because I was about to deploy for 6 months to the mid-east. And the reason they gave me was it would cause "an unstable home environment" A quick call to the VA took care of that and besides, my wife did wonderful. Another case I have seen, An autistic girl was being abused, was always dirty, and was not being sent to school stayed with her family for about 5 years until she was sent to foster care. My wife does social work. I can go on about how broken CYS is for the next decade.
8-18-2008 @ 8:28PM
DENISE MABE said...I THINK THEY SHOULD LOCK.THIS MOTHER UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY.HOW STUPID CAN ANYONE BE.SHE COULD HAD GOT HER A CAB TO TAKE HER REALLY.HER DAUGHTER COULD HAD BEEN KILLED REALLY.I WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE A TRIAL FOR THIS STUPID LADY.I LIVE IN N.C. I WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING SO STUPID.SOME PEOPLE ARE REALLY STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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8-19-2008 @ 1:15AM
matt said...yeah i agree with you but for her it would have cut into her drinking money
8-19-2008 @ 1:26AM
JohnBoydStrother said...Since when wouldn't a girl this age, it such a rurual area, not be able to drive a car or mini van? How people forget, that in these areas of farm work, you learn young to handle equipment. A mini van sure is easier to drive than most of the farm tractors. Sure, if this was going on in a fair sized town, it be one thing. However it is so rural, this girl will be marrying a a few short years.
Give the girl credit, she had the police behind her, she was a little panickly, but true the mom is a bar fly. That is truely a sad story.
8-19-2008 @ 3:26AM
kbutterfly1224 said...JohnBoyd..... Longview is not rural. Hate to break it to you, but it is not a farm town. I used to work at one of the many bars in Longview.... probably that same one the girl dropped her mother off at. For the record a 2006 estimate placed the city's population at 76,524. Granted it's not Dallas or Austin, but there are no tractor's driving down the road there. Not every smaller city in Texas is filled with farmer's on overall's drinking coffee and chewing the fat at the local feed store. Longview is not a safe place for a 12 year old to be left alone, let alone be driving in!
8-18-2008 @ 8:31PM
ccwstauffer said...Why isn't the mother being charge with endangering a child? I just at times cannot believe the stupidly of some parents.
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8-18-2008 @ 8:39PM
SP123311 said...I'm sure this isn't the first time someone has done this. Drunk Jenny just got caught this time.
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8-18-2008 @ 8:39PM
T said...Darn I wish I would have thought about having my kids drive me
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8-18-2008 @ 8:56PM
heidi said...i hope they lock the mom up for a very long time, how could anyone do that to their child. i have never heard of anything so stupid i feel sorry for the child i hope she has a safe place to go with adults that are responsible while her drunk of a mother is in jail hopefully for life
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8-18-2008 @ 9:07PM
Kathy said...This woman did somehting right, as her child obeyed her instructions, and the mom didn't want to risk driving drunk, so she endangered her child's life by allowing her minor child, with no permit or driver's license to drive. The young lady was honest with the police, telling them just where she was driving from, and that she did indeed drop her mom off at the bar as she specified.
Things could've gotten worse should this young girl picked her mom up from the bar drunk, and the mom wanted to drive home, causing a fatal accident, injuring or killing her daughter and herself, or predestrians in their way! Thank God, an officer of the law intervened, and just maybe this family will get the necessary help to get them on the right road. This may have been a wake up call for this family. Where is the father? What was this child doing while mom was at the bar, was she joy riding?
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8-18-2008 @ 9:23PM
Sarah said...Why does this story not surprise me? The reason the kid was driving was because her mother was a worthless drunk. Let me guess.... she never got married and her boyfriend dumped her when she told him she was pregnant. Maybe she's divorced and I can definitely see why. What a pathetic excuse for a parent. What if that kid ran over and killed someone? What if someone hit her? CPS should take the kid away and sterilize the parent. I swear people need to be tested to see if they can actually handle being a parent because there are too many retards having kids that end up being worse than their parents.
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8-18-2008 @ 9:15PM
Michael said...Hey Brad Grow up already with the nudie pics!! Get a life!
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8-18-2008 @ 9:20PM
mjkaylor said...Does Texas still allow hardship licenses at 15. They did when I was growing up. Of course, I also had some friends who were driveing at 13 and 14. One girl looked just like her mom so her mom let her take her license with her when she was going places.
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8-18-2008 @ 9:27PM
Pamela said...I just don't know what to say about this one, lord help this family. And yes Child Protective Services should take this child and any other children in the home from this mother. And where is the father? This girl could have been killed, and if you, as a mother, care more for going to a bar then you do about something happening to your child, they should just let you sit in jail for the rest of your life. Pitiful.
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8-18-2008 @ 9:36PM
christine said...lol...c'mon...give the girl a break! Maybe she has been driving for a while and this is a normal thing for their family - Jerry Springer style. Things could have gone terribly wrong,but they didn't. Does the mom deserve to be punished ? Yes , but not life in prison! Counseling for the family, definately! Oh, I guess I should include that I am the daughter of a drunk mother and had she thought of this - it could have been me , but I grew up to be a non drinker who still drives my mom to and from the bar :)
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8-18-2008 @ 9:38PM
samantha said...hey at least the mother didnt want to drive drunk.she is to blame.because she did endanger her child.but i dont think she should go to jail for it.sure it was idiotic.but people do stupid things everyday.some of them do worst things than this.
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8-18-2008 @ 10:07PM
pimpmyafterlife said...Umm, Im from Texas and my 9 yr old drives.
And no she doesn't hit my house with the truck either.
lol
All bs aside, we do teach our kids to drive at a young age here with everyone packing heat, we have to.
:)
Loved this story.
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