Mom charged after son, 4, takes pot to school, police say

[NashVegas]

A Head Start teacher in Nashville was surprised when a 4-year-old brought a baggie of marijuana with him to preschool, Metro police said in a statement.

The youngster said it came from his mother, Yolanda Burns.

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Burns of Ninth Avenue North was charged with child abuse and was being held last night with bail set at $5,000.

http://tennessean.com/local/archives/04/09/58552342.shtml?Element_ID=58552342

child abuse?

[RobinA]

1. Child Abuse?

Maybe it was really crappy pot.

[Octafish]

2. Show and Tell.

There's a moral there, somewhere, Crisco.

[Ilsa]

3. They didn't charge the

4 year old in W's 'Murica?

[Almost_there]

4. Did Yolanda get her pot back? Hmm..

I wonder if she got her weed back, and when she was told "no, you can't have this", did she fess up? Just sad that she would leave this lying around for her child to get into.

Child abuse? I dunno, more like neglect. Oh well.

[slackmaster]

5. Not child abuse, drug abuse

She failed to take proper care of her stash, and now it's gone to waste.

[uncle ray]

6. would it have been child abuse

if the kid had brought mommy's cigarettes to school instead? nope. they had nothing on the mother, couldn't even get her with posession of MJ. i'm not saying a person should be careless where they leave their stash around children, just pointing out the hypocracy again.

[maxsolomon]

7. $5k bail?

if the kid brought perscription oxycontin to school, no sweat. he brings a fifth of jack to school, no sweat. he brings a GUN to school, she doesn't go to jail.

major weed etiquette violation, but not child abuse.

biggest question: will drug sanity arrive in america in my lifetime? i'm 40, i figure i've got till 2044 or so. right now, today, i doubt it.