Jamie Marie Rosen Accused of Sipping Vodka from Water Bottle while Driving with Kids
Now where have we heard this one before? Oh right - it slightly mirrors the case of Sarah Smith, whose boyfriend Ryan Delaroche was hitting booze from a water bottle while driving. In that case, Smith unintentionally poisoned her baby when she used Ryan’s “water” to mix her daughter’s bottle.
In that case, the fault clearly lied with the father, who shouldn’t have been tippling (a) while he was driving, and (b) under Sarah’s nose. But in Jamie Marie Rosen’s case, the fault falls entirely on mom’s shoulders. The Gilbert, Arizona mom was pulled over by police, who smelled alcohol and her breath and noticed that she had “divided attention”. Her BAC? 0.15% - nearly twice the legal limit. The cops searched the car, and found the water bottle full of vodka in the 42-year-old mom’s purse. Busted! Rosen’s 4- and 6-year-old children were taken into protective custody, and mom was given a nice, quiet jail cell so she could think about what she’d done.
Rosen’s best option at this point would be to plead. Admit to alcoholism, enter treatment, and work out a deal to get her kids back from the state. That’s what we in the bad parenting biz call “Doing the Paula Poundstone”. From what Poundstone’s lawyer said about his client’s case, it seems likely that Rosen can get custody of her kids returned if she gts dry and stays that way for close to a year.
Good luck, Miss Rosen. Make sure to drop to your knees and thank the Deity of your choice that you didn’t kill anybody - yourself and your kids included. You could have easily ended up sharing some of the ignominy that belongs to Thomas Graham Towle, the Australian dad whose drunk driving cost six teens their lives. There but for the grace of God go you.
(Hat tip: Da Trench)
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Jolyn
May 10, 2007 at 9:18 am
She is still drinking, driving and hanging out with her kids. She has definitely NOT learned her lesson. What can be done? She is driving on a suspended license, drinking her vodka, and being a horrible mother to her children. She needs to be removed from the home. Her husband is obviously an enabler.
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