A Parenting Example: Mom Steals Her Kids' Christmas Haul For Crack
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[release][quote][tab]Sandra J. Bowers[/tab][img]http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/bowers.jpg[/img][/quote]
In perhaps the saddest news we've heard all day, a
Belleville woman is in the St. Clair County Jail for selling her kids' Christmas gifts for money to buy crack.
The mom, 35-year-old Sandra J. Bowers, hocked gifts worth about $1,000 and spent the money on rock. The gifts had been purchased for Bowers' children and their cousins by their grandmother.
[url=http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/article_9179d908-086a-11e0-b317-0017a4a78c22.html]As reported in the Post-Dispatch[/url], Bowers' mother already had taken out a restraining order against her addicted daughter, because Bowers had previously stolen jewelry, tools and a car from her. The kids, four and five-year-old boys, had been staying with their grandmother.
Bowers' mother, Pamela Gyon, told the P-D that she thought her daughter had kicked her habit. So she took her shopping for the kids, using the monthly disability check her cancer-patient husband receives. She also let Bowers stay the night. They left the toys in the car so they boys wouldn't see them.
That night, Bowers drove away -- taking the gifts with her.
The police found Bowers' at the EJ Motel in Belleville after her mother reported the car and gifts stolen. She'd sold the toys at pawn shops and on the street in East St. Louis, and was driving and holding a crack pipe when they found her. She's been charged with a felony for violating the restraining order, despite being invited by her mother; the police are also looking into theft charges. Bowers' bond is set at $50,000.
Crack addiction is a desperate kind of sickness. The boys will probably get over one terrible, giftless Christmas, but they need their mom. Here's hoping that Santa brings Bowers a long stay in a good rehab program.[/release]
Poor, poor kids :smith:
That's sad in so many ways.
Terrible.
This is why some drugs will never be legalized
Crack is a drug that not only affects you, but also your loved ones :(
[QUOTE=cardboard_panda;26736001]Crack is a drug that not only affects you, but also your loved ones :([/QUOTE]
All drugs can affect the people around you. Some just worse then others.
My mom used to be a heroin addict, although she did buy us presents, albeit pound shop ones.
Heroin, cocaine, and meth are the drugs that should NEVER be legalized. Synthetic drugs like that only cause harm and damage. I mean for fucks sake, meth is made with car battery acid and fucking bleach.
[editline]16th December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=MR-X;26736068]All drugs can affect the people around you. Some just worse then others.[/QUOTE]
Weed makes me nice and observant.
Kill the mom.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26736108]Heroin, cocaine, and meth are the drugs that should NEVER be legalized. Synthetic drugs like that only cause harm and damage. I mean for fucks sake, meth is made with car battery acid and fucking bleach.
[editline]16th December 2010[/editline]
Weed makes me nice and observant.[/QUOTE]
Sending people to prison for getting high is a terrible idea, though. If the "justice" system worked, junkies would get properly rehabilitated.
Wow, I just hope maybe someone will have a kind soul and give the kids some presents
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26736108]Heroin, cocaine, and meth are the drugs that should NEVER be legalized. Synthetic drugs like that only cause harm and damage. I mean for fucks sake, meth is made with car battery acid and fucking bleach.
[editline]16th December 2010[/editline]
Weed makes me nice and observant.[/QUOTE]
you have no idea what you're talking about.
That is really sad. She didn't even offer to share it with her kids?
despicable
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26736108]Heroin, cocaine, and meth are the drugs that should NEVER be legalized. Synthetic drugs like that only cause harm and damage. I mean for fucks sake, meth is made with car battery acid and fucking bleach.
[editline]16th December 2010[/editline]
Weed makes me nice and observant.[/QUOTE]
You realise that practically every drug used in modern medicine is synthetic, right?
If she did this for gambling money or something else that's legal nobody would report on it
unbelievable this makes me so sick
[editline]16th December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zeke129;26740500]If she did this for gambling money or something else that's legal nobody would report on it[/QUOTE]
yes but you would still be a pretty big dick
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;26740314]You realise that practically every drug used in modern medicine is synthetic, right?[/QUOTE]
He went on to say "only cause harm and damage" which is what other medicines do not do
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;26741082]He went on to say "only cause harm and damage" which is what other medicines do not do[/QUOTE]
Peniscillin can cause 18 years of child-support payments.
In later news, :suicide: :geno:
What a disgusting woman.
[QUOTE=Shustriy;26735972]This is why some drugs will never be legalized[/QUOTE]
Crack is far worse than Cocaine, and crack's very existence is dependent on Cocaine being illegal.
But yeah this is really sad that some people get so dependent on this stuff, but instead of arresting people for putting something in their own body, we should have programs to give them help.
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;26741082]He went on to say "only cause harm and damage" which is what other medicines do not do[/QUOTE]
uh
you can get addicted to morphine and other legal drugs just as easily as you can get addicted to crack
[QUOTE=cardboard_panda;26736001]Crack is a drug that not only affects you, but also your loved ones :([/QUOTE]
Just like death.
Wait, meth IS death.
My step-brother and -sister have a mom that's kind of like this. Not as bad as that, naturally.
[QUOTE=PEn1s lol;26736140]Kill the mom.[/QUOTE]
Woman steals $1000 for drugs. Kill her. :downs:
Oh my god. This is about 10 minutes away from where I live.
Yep there's kids in developing countries who are living on the edge of death with no parents and no Christmas at all.
This is far more sad :smith:
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26736108]Heroin, cocaine, and meth are the drugs that should NEVER be legalized. Synthetic drugs like that only cause harm and damage. I mean for fucks sake, meth is made with car battery acid and fucking bleach.
[editline]16th December 2010[/editline]
Weed makes me nice and observant.[/QUOTE]
wow meth is only ever made with shit like that because it's being cooked by rednecks in their trailer
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