It’s a subtle distinction my friends, and one that is best illustrated by pot smoking miscreant Yasheika Battle who’s having a hard time keeping out of trouble even though she’s being investigated for the death of her infant son.
The son who died after she was arrested on the maternity ward for smoking pot just two days after giving birth to him. She was smoking pot in the maternity ward.
Unsurprisingly, she’s in trouble with the law again and her little son is dead:
NORWALK – A city woman whose baby died almost three months after she was charged with smoking marijuana in her maternity room was arrested on a probation violation charge yesterday.
Yasheika Battle, 29, of 45 Ely Ave. and 20 Oak St., Norwalk, was arrested when she arrived at state Superior Court in Norwalk.
Her infant son, Justin Ali, died May 8. The baby; his father, Zamil Ali, and Battle were sleeping in the same bed that night.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has not determined what caused the 11-week-old baby’s death.
Although Battle and Ali were investigated, no charges have been filed.
During Battle’s arraignment yesterday, the probation department’s recommendation of a $10,000 bond was reduced to a written promise to appear in court.
Battle was convicted Nov. 1, 2006, of second-degree criminal damage of property, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. She was then given a one-year prison sentence, suspended after six months served and followed by three years of probation.
On Feb. 14, she was arrested on the possession of a controlled substance charge.
Battle was found by a Norwalk Hospital nursing supervisor standing in a hallway in her hospital gown and socks dripping wet, the affidavit states; she appeared disoriented.
When the nurse went into her bathroom to turn off the running shower, she spotted a pack of matches on the sink and a “brown tobacco-like butt in the toilet,” the affidavit said.
The real crime here is that Connecticut Child Services allowed this train wreck to keep her child after being arrested time after time for getting high and acting stupid. By the gods, this woman is almost 30 and she’s getting high in a maternity ward. What activity could scream unfit parent louder and clearer than that?
Justin Ali is dead not because pot is illegal, but because pot smokers are bad parents. I know that people will argue the point that legalization will lower crime, but Justin would have died whether pot was legal or not and that’s the kind of crime legalization could never lower.
h/t Trench
If only SuperRob could have flew in and taken the marijuana out of her hand and lifted the stoney fog from her mind her child would be alive, right? Without the evils of weed this poor woman would probably be a doctor or author or maybe a college professor. KNOCK, KNOCK!!
HELLO DUMDUM!! This woman was an idiot from birth not from pot. To try and connect pot smokers with baby killing because of this story is not very intelligent, by the same reasoning i can assume your a child molester because alot of anti-pot people are known for touching kids.
If only you had a job, you’d be working now not trolling welfare. Maybe I should tell your mother (in whose basement you’re no doubt dwelling) that you weren’t looking for a job at all today, just surfing blogs aimlessly.
And “dumdum?” what are you 75?
I am 74 years old and have been occasionally smoking pot for 40 years. I don’t smoke cigarettes or drink booze. I have never hurt anyone or done anything criminal while smoking or not smoking. I am college educated and quite well off. Your assessment of pot smokers needs to be modified. I have had rx drugs prescribed by the medical folk put me in the emergency room on several occasions and they were not opiates. I am learning due to my deteriorating health due to aging what will help keep my discomfort levels at a minimum. If you can manage to remove your head from where the sun does not shine and get your mind off personal bowel inspections you may also begin to learn that pain and discomfort are the biggest road blocks their are to reasonably pleasant life. .
No my assessment doesn’t need to be modified because a overage adolescent who posts anonymously on the Internet makes all sorts claims then insults me. However your admission here explains why you trolled The Firearms Blog so hard – EVEN WHEN PEOPLE WERE AGREEING WITH YOU.
My grandfather died in his 90s, and before that walked everyday (for miles) did handyman jobs for the neighbors and his only vice for the last 20 years of his life was a one mourning coffee and a lotto ticket. I just got a my last wisdom tooth out, I didn’t take the prescription pain killers I received. After years of hiking I have no cartilage left in my left knee. I don’t drink, drug or take anything on a regular basis.
You know why? Because I’m not a pussy.
Grow up. You smoke pot because a) you think it makes you cool b) you use it to lure women to your place and c) your life sucks and you need an escape. You act like it doesn’t have any ill effects but on the last comment thread I saw you on you were arguing for arguments sake, which I would think a man of your supposed years would have out grown.
Since this post was written (more than two year ago) Red Alerts has changed to a blog about preparedness so unless you’re going to go to the front pages and comment there, I don’t care and I’m not keeping you company. Get lost.