Cops: Pa. woman injected daughter, 14, with heroin

[Jabberwocky]

WEST CALN Twp., Pa. -- A Pennsylvania woman is accused of injecting two teens with heroin, including her 14-year-old daughter, reports CBS Philadelphia.

Jessica Lynn Riffey, 34, of West Caln Township, about 50 miles west of Philadelphia, allegedly supplied her daughter and a 16-year-old boy with the drug, and injected them on multiple occasions in September. She's facing charges including endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors, and drug delivery.

"Supplying anyone with heroin is a potential death sentence," Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said in a press release. "Injecting children, including your own daughter, with heroin demonstrates a depravity that defies belief."

Riffey was being held on $50,000 bail.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-pennsylvania-woman-injected-daughter-14-with-heroin/


That sounds like mum of the year material right there

 

[neversickanymore]

Since she is in the running for "Mom" of the year she deserves a pick.

 

[SKL]

Yeah, I've shot a fair bit of dope over the years, hell, more than that, but this thing that we hear about now and again, and I don't even mean in sensationalized media accounts, of folks shooting up their little kids (including much littler than 14) is truly fucking depraved and degenerate as all hell. I can't really imagine the motivation, what, self-justifying to oneself that shooting dope is A-OK, or the initiation into the drug culture and making it normalized so the innocent child is no longer ashamed of the fucked up parent? The desire to get the child to just shut the fuck up? I've encountered this sort of thing only once, in the form of a degenerate family of rednecks who lived in a trailer park in a desolate region of upstate NY, of which the paterfamilias was this guy drawing SSI from a brain injury, needless to say, on all sorts of prescription opiates and into heroin as well, so yeah, my man was not all there, who though that the only way he got his brain going was to drop acid and smoke weed, and so, given that, he turned his kids, a few of them, 11-17, on to it. I was a visitor once to his trailer in the context of some commercial dealings now covered by the statute of limitations, but anyway, we wound up getting snowed in and I had the uncomfortable experience of taking drugs and watching all these minors taking drugs with their father who was a legitimate fucking clinical case. As soon as I could get ahold of a friend with a snowmobile I was right the fuck out of there (and a snowmobile was, legitimately, the only way the fuck out of there ...) Even then, during perhaps the most dedicated and prolific phase of polysubstance abuse in my life, I was genuinely disturbed by sharing it with one's minor children. Ugh, just gross.

 

[Burnt Offerings]

among the hard drug users I knew who had children, using drugs around them was a somewhat controversial issue. A lot of them were in pretty deep, using and selling, yet would still make attempts to try and hide it from their kids as best they could (although the kids still knew what was going on, of course).

But that was mere USE of drugs, trying to keep your kids from witnessing you and your friends using drugs. I can't even imagine actively trying to hook your own children on drugs, that's sick. I've never witnessed anything that sick, thankfully.

 

[manboychef]

I was in rehab with a girl that had a mother that used to shoot her up with hydromorphone. It lead her to a life of misery and desperation. There is a special place in hell for parents like her.

I made a thread in second opinion about birth control for the poor/helping children brought into lives of abuse and poverty...and the girl I mentioned above was one of the thoughts going through my mind when I was thinking of it.

I have a son, and I would never want him having to go through all the pain, and misery of opiate addiction/dependence. As a parent you are entrusted to try to steer your children away from that. It would break my heart to see my son in withdrawal.

 

[Boupstarnm]

Yeah, I've shot a fair bit of dope over the years, hell, more than that, but this thing that we hear about now and again, and I don't even mean in sensationalized media accounts, of folks shooting up their little kids (including much littler than 14) is truly fucking depraved and degenerate as all hell. I can't really imagine the motivation, what, self-justifying to oneself that shooting dope is A-OK, or the initiation into the drug culture and making it normalized so the innocent child is no longer ashamed of the fucked up parent? The desire to get the child to just shut the fuck up? I've encountered this sort of thing only once, in the form of a degenerate family of rednecks who lived in a trailer park in a desolate region of upstate NY, of which the paterfamilias was this guy drawing SSI from a brain injury, needless to say, on all sorts of prescription opiates and into heroin as well, so yeah, my man was not all there, who though that the only way he got his brain going was to drop acid and smoke weed, and so, given that, he turned his kids, a few of them, 11-17, on to it. I was a visitor once to his trailer in the context of some commercial dealings now covered by the statute of limitations, but anyway, we wound up getting snowed in and I had the uncomfortable experience of taking drugs and watching all these minors taking drugs with their father who was a legitimate fucking clinical case. As soon as I could get ahold of a friend with a snowmobile I was right the fuck out of there (and a snowmobile was, legitimately, the only way the fuck out of there ...) Even then, during perhaps the most dedicated and prolific phase of polysubstance abuse in my life, I was genuinely disturbed by sharing it with one's minor children. Ugh, just gross.

lol. I used to run in that circle. Didn't know about the kids tho.