Grandma Tries to Get Girl, 8, Drunk So She Can Go Party - Joanne DeLoach

Wow, just wow. "Grandmother of the Year" finalist? Joanne DeLoach, 47, of Bloomington, Minnesota may already have won with this effort. Here's more from the KARE-11:

Friday night was Joe Ann DeLoach's 47th birthday. But it was also her night to baby-sit her 8-year-old grand daughter.
So instead of staying home with the girl at the Bloomington apartment where they live, police say DeLoach devised a plan that would allow her to leave the girl home and go out.
"As she had said, she went out to 'celebrate her birthday and to get her drink on,'" said Bloomington Police Commander Jim Ryan.
DeLoach did that, say police, after she forced her granddaughter to do the same, hoping the girl would pass out so she could leave. Police say DeLoach made the third grader drink two glasses of gin, diluting them with water when the girl complained of the taste.
"The child is watching cartoons and the Grandma is feeding her glasses of gin to drink to the point where she then passed out," Ryan said.
But not before she vomited, hit her head on the kitchen table, and struck the left side of her face.
Nine hours after the girl's first drink police say her blood alcohol level was still at .04, half the legal driving limit. DeLoach denies she gave the girl booze, claiming her granddaughter must have snuck the liquor herself.
"There's no way she would have reached that high level just by taking a couple of sips out of the bottle," Ryan said.
Police say the bottle of gin was empty when they arrived at 10 p.m. Friday, alerted by an anonymous caller. By that time, the girl's mother was home from a 12 hour shift, but DeLoach didn't come back until Saturday morning.

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Grandmother Arrested After Baby Ingests Meth - Janna Beau, Richland Hills, TX

"Grandmother of the Year" finalist? Janna Beau, 48, has been arrested on an accusation of endangering a child after her 8-month-old grandson ended up in the hospital in April after accidentally swallowing methamphetamines. According to cops, the infant was living with Ms. Beau, his 1-year-old sister and his mother, Whitney Walker at grandma's house. Why was Beau charged? Police say that she, ". . .allowed illegal drugs into her home where the baby had access" and ". . . took no precaution to preventing the baby from being exposed." And don't think mom is off the hook: the cops are also preparing an identical charge against her which is a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in prison. (Dallas Morning News)

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12-Year-Old Drives for Drunk Grandmother, Watches as She Breaks Windows

Don't you just love these heartwarming stories? This comes from the Post Chronicle:

A Nebraska woman has been charged with getting drunk and making her 12-year-old granddaughter drive her to a relative's house, where she broke windows.
Vickie Britton of Lincoln faces charges of vandalism and child neglect, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. Her granddaughter could be ticketed for driving without a license. Police say they received a call reporting the broken windows. The woman made another call when Britton and her granddaughter allegedly returned to the scene.
Britton's Chevrolet Cavalier was found nearby with the 12-year-old behind the wheel.

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