Jacqueline Ellen Vuich Pleads Guilty to Injecting Nephew, Niece with Heroin in Her Mom’s Drug House
Crap, I better blog this before another person emails it. Hot tippers Joanie, mgraber and April all thought of me when they saw the tale of Jacqueline Ellen Vuich, a 26-year-old Mount Clemens, Michigan woman who confessed to injecting her 15-year-old niece and 12-year-old nephew with heroin while they ate dinner. She was sentenced this week to serve eight years for the assault.
Good God. How fucked up is that? See, this is an idea that doesn’t even occur to a normal person. This is outside most people’s scope of possibility. Who sees a child sitting at a dinner table and thinks, “You know what that kid needs? A big dose of dope in his veins!” That’s twisted on the order of Infected Blood Mom. Why would anyone inflict this kind of torture on a child? According to the kids, Vuich did it just for the hell of it. She asked the boy if he wanted to try some smack and he, innocently, said he didn’t care. The overdose almost killed him.
But Vuich isn’t the kids’ mother, right? So why am I blogging this? Oh, friends…this whole family is fucked up. All of this happened under parental eyes. 47-year-old Jan Ruby Catton, Vuich’s mother, was also slapped with various charges, including running a drug house and a whore den. In the understatement of the century, Macomb County Circuit Judge Matt Switalski said that Catton was “probably not a good caregiver”. The house was constantly under CPS’s gaze before the incident occurred; the kids reported that Catton, their grandmother and guardian to a total of nine children, would order them to clean the den of all syringes and other paraphernalia before case workers showed up.
Catton insists that she tried to stop the drugging and the hooking. The judge sentenced her to two years probation anyway. Needless to say, she won’t be responsible for raising children for a while.
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6 opinions for Jacqueline Ellen Vuich Pleads Guilty to Injecting Nephew, Niece with Heroin in Her Mom’s Drug House
Lindsay Beyerstein
Dec 2, 2006 at 8:06 pm
I’m not sure I buy the prosecution’s story. How do you inject heroin into someone while they’re eating dinner? It’s not so easy to inject another person, unless they consent to it. I mean think about it. Hundreds of million syringes in the world, hundreds of thousands of sick fucks, how often do you hear of someone successfully giving a hypodermic (let alone an intravenous) injection to an unconsenting person?
Obviously, a 12-year-old can’t morally or legally consent to being injected with heroin any more than he could consent to sex with an adult. So, if this woman’s heroin ended up in that boy’s body, then she’s guilty of some very serious crime(s). On the other hand, it seems unlikely that Vuich literally forced drugs into her victim.
The Zero Boss
Dec 2, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Lindsay, the boy testified in court that he consented. He didn’t know what it was that she was giving him. Are you saying the kid’s lying?
Lindsay Beyerstein
Dec 3, 2006 at 10:58 am
No. I think she gave him the drugs. I think he’s lying about not knowing what the drug was. He’s a 12-year-old living with a raging heroin addict in a house of prostitution. He knew what it was. Possibly, he didn’t know whether today’s junk was heroin or Dilaudid, but I’m sure he recognized the non-medical use of intravenous opiates when he saw it.
I don’t buy the cops’ story that she foisted them on him intravenously while he was eating spaghetti. The kid initially told doctors that his aunt gave him a powder, he later told a police detective that she shot him up.
riss
Jan 18, 2007 at 3:34 am
what the hell. I wish drugs could be eliminated out of this world. it would save alota kids right there.
smiley
Mar 16, 2007 at 3:06 am
to lindsay are you stupid you must be crazy to write that dumb shit. i dont give a shit if he knew what it was or if he didnt or if he did it everyday for all i care BUT he is still a child shes a adult theres a big difference. so what hes in a household full of dopefiends and hoes that doesnt mean she had to help him out a little by shooting him up.these are children she should be doing way more jail time parents included.
ghalin
Jan 14, 2008 at 5:51 pm
This woman is clearly mad! If anybody would start doing that to kids I’d probably end up sharing my suboxone treatment with my 10 year old. But what’s good for my condition would kill him. I’d never hurt a kid, especially mine, on purpose.
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