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Parents Wanted To Teach Son The Dangers Of Alcohol. They Never Thought It Would End Like This
Hoping to teach their son a lesson, two Wyoming parents gave their son alcohol. Tragically, this decision lead to their son’s death.
The parents, Joseph M. Richardson and Paulette L. Richardson, are being charged with involuntary manslaughter.
According to Joseph Richardson in an affidavit filed in the case, Ball frequently expressed a desire to drink, and he was “trying to go along with what he had been told and teach a lesson about alcohol and get him (Ball) sick.”
16-year-old Kendall Ball was found dead in his room on July 7th.
Court documents state that Paulette Richardson said that Ball’s biological father is an alcoholic, and she did not want her son to turn out like him.
She claims that that night Kendall drank “a few shots of Fireball, and a few shots of Jack Daniel’s…in the house with her and her husband…and a friend, Joseph Kunkle.”
She also said that her son was “very intoxicated.”
A toxicology report by Uinta County Coroner Greg Crandall proved that Richardson was right: Ball had an extremely high blood alcohol level of .587. The legal limit for someone to drive a vehicle in Wyoming is .08.
When Richardson checked on her son at 3:45 AM, she found him unresponsive.
The affidavit states that “[Ball’s] lips and eyelids were dark blue.” Furthermore, there was “a large amount of dark, thick fluid pooled on the floor from his mouth” and “there were multiple places that looked like vomit on the floor.”
Prevention Management of Wyoming CEO Keith Hotle stated: “Definitely a tragedy like this affects all of us and especially all of us who are parents. It makes us think about how we address these things with our kids” and that “situations like this remind us that alcohol poisoning is a real danger.”
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/parents-wanted-to-teach-son-the-dangers-of-alcohol-they-never-thought-it-would-end-like-this/
