Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor
An example of when it might be good to provide a safe place for teens to drink. What a horrible tragedy.
Suffolk County Police have arrested two West Babylon men in connection with the death of Garrett Quedens, 14, who died after freezing to death early New Years Day. Both were both charged with unlawful dealing with a child in the first degree.
Garrett and a 14-year-old friend both consumed the alcohol. Quedens died. His body was found lying along the side of a road New Year’s Day.
These kids were going to drink. They were celebrating and didn’t know when to quite – when enough was enough and when too much was too much. Had they been under adult supervision, this horrible loss may have been avoided.
It’s easy to see how one could pose the argument in favor of supervised teen drinking, but when and where do you draw the line? Fourteen seems to be so awfully young, don’t you think?
“Had they been under adult supervision…” exactly. Where were their parents? 14 and they were out on their own on New Year’s? I’m not saying they should have been drinking under parent/guardian supervision, I’m saying they should have been NOT drinking, and under parent/guardian supervision. That’s the tragedy, imo. I know several kids from my home town who have died of alcohol-related incidents, and some of them included adult supervised drinking. There is a reason for the age limit.