Cairo Association of Teachers - Newsletter

CAT Tracks for September 13, 2006 PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT

But, officer...he was getting his homework done...I was keeping him off the streets...what more could you want?

From the Chicago Sun-Times...

Woman gave son pot if he did his homework

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- A woman admitted to smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for completing his homework. Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, pleaded guilty to several charges this week and will be sentenced Nov. 27.

Livelsberger, of Conewago Township, admitted in Adams County court that she had been smoking marijuana with her son since he was 11, and that she often gave it to him as a reward.

The boy told police that he was required to do his homework as soon as he got home from school, and then was allowed to smoke marijuana with his mother, according to court documents.

The woman also said she also smoked marijuana with two of her son's friends, ages 17 and 18, police said. The 18-year-old also told investigators he had also bought heroin from Livelsberger.