- Awake, for once.
Oh, Lorain. Every time we go a couple of days without some strange and/or horrific story emerging from your fruitful area, we think things might be getting better.
And then, without fail, we are brought back to reality with a story like this one, about Amber Connor.
Police found Connor drunk and passed out in a parking lot. Her 3-year-old daughter was next to her and when cops approached she said, “Mommy is sleeping.”
The Lorain Morning Journal has the sad, sad details:
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2010.
Shame on the SCENE for using archaic and sitgmatizing language! She wasn’t “drunk.” She was self-medicating with alcohol for her bipolar disorder. Once she gets properly diagnosed and medicated she surely won’t have to use so much of it. Of course that daughter will have to be monitored and hopefully medicated prophylactically because as we know, major mental illnesses are genetic in origin.
OMG it’s insane that someone would make an excuse for this piece of crap! She does not deserve to be a mother! She needs to be locked up and taught to act like an adult! Our society needs to stop making excuses for these idiots, they need to Own up to their actions!
hope nothing ever happen in your life and you don’t have the support of having someone there for you, espescially if you don’t have God a part of your life who is able to heal and forgive and can do all things. Don’t look down unless you are able to help someone up. this is a sad situation.
Hey KIDS……I think, phil was being sarcastic. But people do have problems and deeming them a “piece of crap” and an “idiot” are pretty immature. The woman obviously needs help and some compassion. Those must not be traits of your genetic makeup
Hldnmgrn: agreed, well put.
Better cross our fingers and hope we don’t end up like the ones we persecute.
So many people are like this because society makes excuses! I am an adult who would never be in a position like that because I know how to be a parent and I know right from wrong! The majority of these people do know right from wrong and they choose wrong! I do speak from experience….I had a mother far worse then this and I spent three years as a correction officer and I am 2 classes away from being a social worker! So all that I have said comes from real life experience and education! Once any of you that want to make excuses for these people have those things then you will make correct comments! Stop making excuses for these people, it does not help it only makes it worse! She is not the victim her….the child is! Its sad how so many people forget that and its people like you that show how little people know about the world! Once you have some experience and education about these things then make your comments…I gaurentee your comments will be alot like mine!
Hey Kids, how do you know I don’t have experience with any of this? If you knew anything at all you would know that alchoholism and addiction are a disease. Your absolute ignorance is reminiscent of the way society treated disease in the dark ages. Take a few more classes please, then find a brain because you are a pinhead. Enough said.
You are not worth my time! You clearly are just another weak “oh poor me person” that has an excuse for your crappy life! Clearly your experience is the “oh I am an addict and can’t help that I am too weak!” So you keep living in your hole while I protect the people that people like you hurt through your “addictions”! Your foolish words make me laugh, you are clueless and uneducated and as I said your only experience is being the garbage that we are sick of watching drag our society down! I hope you get help and become a stonger person since clearly your addictions still control you and you are a victim to yourself! My goal is to protect the ones that cannot protect themselves…the children! People like you need to grow up and own up to your actions, stop being weak and get over yourself!
The women does need help for her problem. However if the child is being neglected the child needs to go to a more stable envionment.
Kids,,,,,In case you didn’t get it, this woman drank an entire bottle of vodka and passed out in a parking lot with her 3 year old child. This is not someone who had a few too many drinks and said something stupid at an office party or fell on a dance floor. This is a person who is near the depths of a terribly debilitating disease. You really should understand this if you are taking classes to become a social worker. Maybe you shouldn’t be taking these classes at Walmart……….gonna go out on a limb here and say that if you are going to become a social worker who wants to help people you aren’t going to last 3 months. By the way, my experience with this woman’s behavior is as a clinical psychologist, not an addict.
It appears that this individual has a severe problem given that she placed her child in jepardy as well as herself by her excessive use of alcohol. Chances are this isn’t her first incident. Alcoholism is a progressive behavior. Granted, this behavior is certainly not healthy. She obviously needs help. Perhaps, this incident may just get her the proper intervention she needs as well as help for her child. Until she has been assessed by a professional who can provide her with some assistence, her needs will go unattended. Some of the comments regarding her condition are well taken. However, some are emotionally laden. Hopefully, the social worker in their career explore the problems of addiction further and become a little more objective in how they approach this disorder. Sometimes, having experience from a personal level has its advantages. Like anything else, there is a need to remain open to learning; particularly, if you are going to impact others’ lives. This will come with experience for most. Self-evaluations are always a good start; especially where working in the social field. Nevertheless, this mother and child needs some assistence. HOPE, they will get what is needed in the form of mental health and substance abuse for the mother. In addition, for both, a place in society where they both will be healthy and safe. Incarceration, well, is not always the pancea.
I am the child of an alcoholic, and thank God my mom is now sober. I love her very much, but my childhood, what I did have of one, was f%$#ed up because of her drinking. This child needs to be taken away from this woman or she will not have a normal life. I know that alcoholism is a disease, but the alcoholic has to take responsibility at some point. It does seem to me that they choose the booze over their kids. You shouldn’t be allowed to have both. Kids deserve better. And, disease or not, it’s child neglect, endangerment, and abuse.
I’m sure everyone agrees the child needs to moved to be protected. The point is that the lady needs and deserves help. She is human, afterall. Hopefully she will get it.
PAssing out drunk in a car while you have a kid is NOT self medicating. No excuses.
I’m kind of wondering if the people who took philbert literally aren’t a little drunk. lol
The kid has to come first, we are only shocked because of the child aspect. That child needs removed immediately or we will see another headline we all dread seeing. If only someone intervened for him/her, poor little one. etc.
lol @ dreadly- you are absolutely right. some people you can smack in the face with sarcasm and they wouldn’t know it. oops, was that politically incorrect, suggesting i am pro-abuse?
wow, that is too bad to see a mother having to ruin herself and her childs life for a simple drink. I hope this will be a wake up call for the mother. If she can’t be responsible for her own family , then maybe she shouldn’t be able to care for that child she has. It fortunate, know one got hurt.
Sarah Connor just called, “Amber, you’re a horrible mother, I wouldn’t raise my child under any horrible conditions”.
here’s a suggestion stop crapping out kids you have no intention of taking care off.
cancer is a disease….leukemia, etc….doing something to yourself PURPOSELY, like drinking and smoking…are NOT diseases, they are something that CAN be avoided…people need to wake up and take responsibility for their actions!
Just thank the pro lifers that put a woman on a bad trip if she had an abortion. So many women forced to do things they don’t want to do by others who know what is good for them… look where it leads, maybe you don’t have all you should know before you open your big hypocrytical,sanctimonious mouths.
Excuse me all of you. Im 17 years old and this my 26 year old sister. I lover he with all my heart. She has seen help and is sooooo much better. She daughter (my niece) Lola has not been affected by this thank goodness so dont EVER think hat this wont happen to you because people make mistakes.