This is so disturbing! An Australian mother got her 5-year-old son drunk! Luckily, his dad called the ambulance in time and now the mom has been jailed for eight months. Is that enough of a punishment?
Some people just shouldn’t be parents. Kylie Eastwood is one of those people. The 36-year-old from Moe, east of Melbourne, Australia, is heading to jail after she allowed her 5-year-old son to consume numerous shots of homemade grappa in 2008. “He likes his alcohol,” the mother-of-six said.
According to the boy’s father, Kylie returned home from a visit to a friend’s house where she received a bottle of the home-brewed grape brandy. A few minutes later he caught his little boy drinking it. “I walked into the kitchen and saw my son with a shot glass to his lips,” he said in court.
The dad quickly took the bottle off the tot. But before long he heard Kylie “woo-hooing” in the kitchen. When he went to investigate, he discovered the kid drinking more shots as his mother cheered him on. “He likes his alcohol and asked me for a drink, and I told him, ‘Well OK, just one,’” says Kylie (who has six children to four different fathers).
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HollyMoms, tests on the grappa showed that it contained 44 percent alcohol! Luckily for the little boy, his dad acted fast and called the police and the paramedics. At the hospital the boy underwent tests that showed he had a blood alcohol level of 0.09, and police believe he consumed between four to six shots of the potent booze. In American 0.08 will get you arrested for driving under the influence.
Officer Sonia Cummings, who arrived on the scene, says that the little guy was so drunk he was “making grunting noises” and walking into walls. How horrible! Kylie Eastman should be ashamed of herself. “At the time I didn’t see the severity of it but I tell you what, the next morning I did,” she says. Too little too late. That’s the kind of logic that college kids use after a night of partying on Fraternity row, but it’s wholly upsetting to hear it coming from a mother who should definitely know better than to give her little boy shots. I have a feeling this tyke won’t touch booze until he’s legal, after this experience.
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Kylie originally plead guilty to reckless conduct endangering serious injury and failing to protect a child from harm and was sentenced to five months in jail. But she changed her plea to not guilty after prosecutors appealed her sentence on the grounds that it was inadequate.
On Nov. 4, she was sentenced to a maximum of eight months in jail, and was additionally ordered to serve a four-month suspended sentence for another conviction related to her leaving three children under the age of 10 at home alone for several hours while she went out drinking with a friend. In April, police were called to Kylie’s house after she got drunk, turned on the gas of an open oven and shouted at her neighbors for help. Her 8-month-old son was in the house at the time.
Kylie is required to serve at least five months before she is eligible for parole, but reports don’t reveal whether she is losing custody of her six children.
Do you think that’s enough of a sentence for this mom? Make your voice heard in the comment section below.
–Amy L. Harper
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Sandra
Posted at 1:39 AM on November 18, 2010
I am not prejudice in anyway but when you take a look around, the people that are having alot of children are people who should not even be allowed to raise a plant. People that “would be” or “are” good parents have one or two or no children. Our world is being populated by the most ignorant pieces of sh**. Through no fault of their own they are damaged as children and grow up to be dysfunctional and less than perfect parents. This woman has six children from 4 different fathers. She has a 8 month old baby and I bet that she will continue to have more children, it is a harsh thing to say but I think this is a great case for sterilization. Her kids have an excellent chance of growing up to have many dysfunctional children themselves. It is the children who pay, not the parents, and society overall. All of these reports of parents doing horrendous things to their kids is getting to be the “norm” not the abnormal these days. Yet, we continue to look the other way and hope that things will improve and these people will stop having kids on their own. I have a young mother within my own family who sounds just like this woman, except she no longer has her children because of neglect, and drug abuse. Luckily, she can’t have anymore chilren because her uterus gave out. (Divine intervention?)She is 25 years old, has 6 children and has raised none of them. There are parents that use their children to buy drugs by selling them for sex. Or they make sex videos of them to sell to other perverts. Where does it end? I feel sick for all the children and animals that are used and abused everday. It doesn’t take money to be a good parent. Just love and dedication. I don’t have any easy answers but the next time you read one of these parental horror stories, remember my comments and think about what we can do as a society to protect the most vulnerable. I am all for human rights but doesn’t a child have a right to born into a family that is not going to abuse it and kill it?