Re: CPS Takes Man's Son After Mistakenly Giving Him Alcoholic Lemonade


"Kris Baker" <kris.baker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ImSRj.7848$iK6.6157@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Michigan Man Protests Losing His Son After Mistakenly Giving Him Alcoholic Lemonade
Tuesday, April 29, 2008


DETROIT - A University of Michigan professor says he had no idea he'd given his 7-year-old son alcoholic lemonade at a ball game, and is furious at child-protection officials for removing his son from the home.

Christopher Ratte of Ann Arbor and his wife have filed a complaint against Child Protective Services.

Their son Leo spent two days in state custody. The father spent nearly a week outside his home before he was allowed to return.

He tells the Detroit Free Press that he'd taken his son to a Detroit Tigers game a few weeks ago. He didn't notice the $7 lemonade he bought contained alcohol.

A security guard noticed the boy drinking the spiked lemonade and called authorities. Leo was checked at a hospital. No trace of alcohol was found in his blood.

No charges were filed against the father, who says it was a case of "massive overreaction."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353186,00.html
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This kind of *** really pisses me off. I'm remembering all the stories posted on here of kids being left in obviously abusive homes because CPS ignored the warning signs and the child ended up dead, sometimes after a torturous life. And CPS is supposed to be understaffed and overworked, blah blah. Grrrrr

Chocolic

I dunno. I can't believe the guy was so stupid as to not
know that "Mike's Hard Lemonade" had alcohol in it
(5%). The little stand-up cards are all over the mass-
market restaurants (Applebees, Chilis, etc)......and
it's in the grocery stores in the beer sections.

We make it necessary for CPS to investigate all reports....
and what if it had been the fifth one he'd let the kid drink?
No one knew, until the kid was tested.

Kris

I can understand CPS acting at first because there was a report and they had to. Same thing with cops that answer stupid calls. But putting the kid in state custody for "two" days? Then making the man live outside the home for a week? How long did that friggin test take? Although I do have to admit that even if he were a nondrinker and had no idea what Mike's Lemonade was, the $7 tag on it should have set off a red flag. But still.

Besides that, I would occasionally give my daughter a sip of my wine when they were around that age and older. And when my one daughter who had 9 months of severe colic, I dabbed my finger in whiskey and put it in her mouth out of desperation (I begrudgingly gave in to an old wive's tale). Crap, I should have posted that on Bill's thread about crimes we have dared to admit. ;)

Chocolic

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