Wyoming couple charged in death of boy 'taught lesson' about alcohol

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A Wyoming woman and her husband have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the alcohol poisoning death of her 16-year-old son, whom they plied with mixed drinks and shots of scotch to teach him a lesson about drinking, authorities said on Wednesday.

Paulette and Joseph Richardson, the teen's stepfather, will appear in court in southwestern Wyoming on Friday for a hearing to determine probable cause, prosecutors said, and both could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Police responded to the couple's home in the small town of Urie before dawn on July 7 after Joseph Richardson reported the teen was unconscious, legal records show.

A sheriff's deputy found the boy dead on the floor of a bedroom in a pool of vomit and dark, thick fluid that had issued from his mouth, according to court documents.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/wyoming-couple-charged-death-boy-taught-lesson-alcohol-233034652.html

[procon]

1. God... there are no words.

Poor child.

[Brickbat]

2. That's heartbreaking.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. These two were absolutely medieval

Trial by ordeal went out with the 1400s

This was Ordeal of Poison and Ordeal of Ingestion

all rolled into one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_ordeal

Kid sure deserved better than to have torturers as parents

Wonder if they knew it was torture

[Person 2713]

4. If you read it sounds like his medication was inappropriately dosed also

[tomm2thumbs]

5. I guess they showed him

[Ed Suspicious]

6. What choice did they have? They needed to save him from himself. If they didn't do this he might

have fucked up his life on the evil spirit.











Parents are probably alcoholics themselves.

[Judi Lynn]

7. What a shame the boy couldn't escape them before they killed him.

[center]

Paulette and Joseph Richardson [/center]

[RKP5637]

8. Yet another WTF! I wonder if the next step was to have him crash/drive into

a tree to teach him to be careful driving. There are so many truly F'ed up people it's astounding.

[niyad]

9. can we do the same to them?

[wordpix]

10. terrible - people like this make me think

women who get pregnant must go to classes to learn how to parent and give appropriate consequences, not torture, when the kids mess up.

[magical thyme]

11. why just "women who get pregnant?" how about the men who "impregnate them?" or help "raise" the

child(ren)?

[Snow Leopard]

12. Because women

Disproportionately raise, educate, and socialize children?

[magical thyme]

13. well even in families where women are doing the raising, etc., the other parent should know how

so they can recognize abuse when it's under their noses.

Both parents should be held responsible, period, regardless of the private arrangements within the home.

[Heddi]

14. maybe you missed the part in the story

where it was the woman and her HUSBAND. Not just the woman.

Therefore, classes for both

"A Wyoming woman and her husband..."

[Snow Leopard]

15. I wasn't responding

To the 'story' but the previous post. Never the less who predominately raised and educated the child in this story?

[Heddi]

16. Who knows. DOesn't say, doesn't matter

2 adults were in charge of this child at the time of his murder: mother & step-father. Whether she had raised him 99% of his life or they both had since the day he was born, both parents were involved, both are responsible, therefore this could have easily have been prevented if she and he had taken the classes, etc, you require for all mothers, but no fathers. That's bigoted.