re: Daycare Owner gets 21 Years For Giving Kids Melatonin While She Went Tanning/Gym

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Did any kids get hurt by this permanently?

If not, I think 21 years is a bit steep...

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As is often the case in situations like this, there's more to the story:

From LINK

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Since her arrest last March, Neatherlin had approached other inmates and asked them to claim they had worked for her. She also wrote letters to former inmates asking for bail money and promised to pay them from offshore accounts worth "a lot of money," according to the sentencing memo.

Neatherlin's rap sheet dates back to 2007, when she was charged with multiple instances of theft and identity theft. Court documents filed by the state describe her as having an "on-going, systematic scheme of doing what she wanted and getting what she wanted, without any concern for the danger she was placing others in."

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So, witness tampering plus the fact this wasn't her first rodeo by a long shot.

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expecting my first and we're on waiting lists for day cares and they are so absurdly expensive.

Child care prices lead to shite like this happening.

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My first is 9 months old and holy freaking shite you ain't lying about childcare costs That was my first thought, too--parents likely looming for any sort of affordable care and ended up choosing someone who betrayed them.

I don't agree with a 21 year sentence though. Less than half that would be more appropriate for the crime, IMO. Not my kid though so idk.

I think she was getting tattoos. Those do take awhile to get....

Good she endangered kids lives, throw the max at her

Not to mention she didn’t have the appropriate licensure

She’ll most likely serve 5 years out of that 21 though due to overcrowded cells and shite

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what if the place caught fire while she was gone and the kids were all drugged to sleep? Still an excessive sentence?

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What IF Ed McMahon’s prize patrol strolled in and all the kid’s parents got to split the money?



I mean if we’re playing the if game.

The sentence is stiff, but then again I didn’t have a kid there. I wouldn’t give a shite if they gave her death, had my child been involved.

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Slow your roll there chief. It was melatonin. The body produces it naturally

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You lose.

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they were doping my girls up



Slow your roll there chief. It was melatonin. The body produces it naturally.

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Yea but add to that she was leaving the kids after that for long periods of time. To me that’s even worse. Anything could have happened, fire, break in, or god knows what else.

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wasn't even narcotics. It was melatonin. 

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That is why i give my kids whiskey. It isnt a narcotic.



See how dumb that sounds?

Depending on the mandatory time served, I suspect she gets s parole hearing in at least 5 years.

Also...she lied to the parents and told them she was a registered nurse. That is also a crime that I’m sure she was charged for.