Two Adults, One Student Charged in Suburban Chicago Hazing Incident
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,87483,00.html
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
SKOKIE, Ill. — Two parents were charged Wednesday with supplying alcohol to students at a suburban Chicago high school who participated in a brutal hazing incident captured on videotape.
Christine Neal, 49, was charged with delivery of alcohol to a minor for buying three kegs of beer, two of which were found at the park where the hazing took place, prosecutors said. Marcy Spiwak, 49, was charged with allowing her home to be used for underaged drinking.
One should remember that these parents are innocent until proven guilty.
I am in the business of selling liquor. It is an honorable business for the most part. Each state has different laws regulating the sale of alcohol. Every state has some type of law that prohibits the furnishing of alcohol in any form to anyone under 21. Everyone has been inundated with video of the now infamous
"Powder Puff" Football Game. Drinking by minors evidently played a major role in the activities - or at least was made to appear as such in the videos. In our state this would have been looked at as a more serious crime than it is Illinois. Alcohol was not the cause of what happened. What happened would probably have happened with or without the alcohol. But! If I had sold them the alcohol they would have hung my butt, I would have lost my license, and been out of business.
What do you all think about
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1. Teenage drinking
2. Furnishing alcohol to minors
3. Selling alcohol to minors
Is there a difference in selling it to them or buying it for them?
Where does one place the blame? Are parents becoming so permissive that they don't care what their kids do? How much of this permissiveness is the underlying cause of the problems many kids have today. Do parents actually have any control what-so-ever anymore?
Your turn.