8-year-old says he got heroin from 'my Mommy's house'

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8-year-old says he got heroin from 'my Mommy's house'
Deborah Todd
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
4.16.10


An 8-year-old boy who passed out heroin to his fellow third-graders in a Wilkinsburg classroom told a teacher he got the drugs from "my Mommy's house."

But Chynita Young told investigators she had no knowledge of the drugs.

Those details were revealed in a criminal complaint supporting Ms. Young's arrest on Thursday on counts endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors.

Ms. Young, 25, of Homewood, was arrested two days after her son was discovered with 78 packs of heroin in his classroom at Turner Elementary School.A teacher learned he had passed out the heroin, stamped with the words "Trust Me," to at least one student. Several empty packages were later found discarded in the classroom's garbage can.

According to the complaint filed by Wilkinsburg Police, the boy told the teacher he got the drugs from "my mommy's house." When police interviewed mother and son together, the boy said he found the packets near a toy box and television on the floor in an upstairs bedroom of their home.

Ms. Young denied knowing about the drugs. She acknowledged she and her son were at their Homewood residence on Tuesday before he was taken to school. She said no stops were made between their home and the school.

A separate affidavit detailed the nature of simple assault, harassment and criminal mischief charges filed against Ms. Young for a Jan. 14 domestic dispute with her child's father, William C. Jackson of Mount Oliver. Ms. Young allegedly broke two windows in the front door of Mr. Jackson's Locust Street residence, scratched his face when he answered the door and fled before police arrived.

Ms. Young was arraigned in both cases by separate district judges Thursday.

She was jailed on $75,000 bond.

Her son and a sibling were in the care of the county Children Youth and Family office.

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That is absolutely shocking. I was exposed to drugs as a kid - not as young as 8 years old and not to that degree but I still cant believe how reckless some parents are. It saddens me to think about the future that poor kid has to look forward to :(
 
Ever see the movie Fresh? Seems sort of like that, except the kid here was dealing to people his own age and not older people. Though, I don't know how much of it was actual dealing and how much was just giving bags of heroin to his classmates.


Would any of the other kids even know what to do with it? That is of course aside from the fact that doing any of it would be very dangerous for a child that young. At least it doesn't taste good. The bitter taste wouldn't be further enticement.

Did the mom purposely give them to the kid or something? How many bags would a person have to have to not notice 78 missing? Unless she somehow didn't know they were there, which seems unlikely. Heroin fairy perhaps. Never leaves anything under my bed. :(
 
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Lol, so she didn't know how they got in her house. I guess the tooth fairy swung past and left 'em there instead of $2.
H dealer at 8. That kid's gonna be a cartel by the time he hits high school. Wonder what punishment he got, detention?
 
i don't understand how these little kids even know what Heroin is or looks like. and why he would take it to school and hand em out is beyond me? Maybe he sees 'mommy' selling em and thinks its cool
 
My father himself had a patient that was also 8 years old and addicted to drugs (as in not just handing them out) about ten years ago. He must either be dead by now or god knows what...
 
This is pretty sad.
Kids should not be involved with drugs at all (including caffeine and sugar).

Note the twist of reality that the article uses in the first paragraph, later revealed to be an exaggeration:

phrozen said:
An 8-year-old boy who passed out heroin to his fellow third-graders ....
A teacher learned he had passed out the heroin, stamped with the words "Trust Me," to at least one student.
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So, which is it? He passed out the H to his "fellow third-graders", or to one student?
 
^yeah noticed that too =\ friggen media


I'm curious about all the empty bags in the trash- were the bags empty when the kid brought em in? Did the other 28 kids in the room who got free bags see cops n remember their late night tv training and dump the dope? Was nap time extra-noddy that day?
 
Yo, yall is ignorant as hell if you dont think that no 8 year old kid cant deal dope. Kids be around the dope spot bein lookouts and runnin shit down the block all the time at that age. They see their big brothers, fathers, cousins, sisters boyfriends, mamas boyfriends, etc, doin all that shit and they get involved, shits cool to them, they do it cuz they see it.

If the kid was 5 I would say yea, theres some more of that kids gettin into the cookie jar type shit there, but for real, do yall know any EIGHT YEAR OLDS who talk like "I got it from my mommys house!" All innocent and baby-talk and shit? Hell no. I think that on some level that kid knew wat he was doin--muthafucka played it off all like he aint know shit. I aint sayin he was like "Hell yea, Ima sell some mutha fuckin hero'n to these bitches' but im jus sayin--when you in that environment and you grow up all around it you kno wat the fuck that shit is, and you aint gonna be dumb enough to go to school with it when you KNOW its somethin "bad", some of that "grownup shit" and hand it out like fuckin candy like some retarded ass prescholler who thinks her moms e pills are Smarties.

In the suburbs with all these lil white kids they dont know nothin bout nothin but spongebab when they 8. But in the hood u grow up faster. It aint some kind of crazy unbelievable shit to think that this kid had some kind of consicous idea that he had dope on him, and that its somethin u can sell to make money. I doubt it was some kind of "hey, wats this, how bout I bring it to school and get mommy locked the fuck up" type shit. he had to know wat it was, he wouldnt of even had no interest in it if he didnt. Kids pick up E pills cuz they look like candy--dope dont look like nothin interesting to no child unless he know wat it is and that its somethin he seen the big homies makin money off of.
 
^I'm too lazy to find a link and need to get back to the bar before last call, but *insert pic of 6 year old afghani kid sucking on an opium pipe*
 
i bet the kids dad gave him the dope after those charges and gave the kid instructions, go to school and give this to some of your classmates, when the teacher asks you who you got from, say Mommy
 
MistaSmokalot said:
i bet the kids dad gave him the dope after those charges and gave the kid instructions, go to school and give this to some of your classmates, when the teacher asks you who you got from, say Mommy
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That's exactly what I've been thinking.

Nasty shit happens during custody battles. I know first hand.
 
my teacher has been in the D&A field for a while now and she ran a children program where she had 8-12yr kids coming in addicted to heroin. a lot of them addicted to marijuana or stupid shit like vanilla extract or alcohol or coffee grounds cough syrup etc.
 
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