Two charged for forcing 2-year-old to smoke pot

Posted at: 10/21/2009 9:11 AM | Updated at: 10/21/2009 6:57 PM
By: Linzi Sheldon | WHEC.com

The photographs tell the story. A two-year-old boy is forced to inhale marijuana smoke. After looking at the pictures, police arrested the boy's mother and her boyfriend.

Eighteen-year-old Kristin Brewster and 22-year-old George Lavare are charged with endangering the welfare of a child. They are both in jail.

The woman who turned the couple into police calls the incident traumatizing. “He could have died in there. He could have went into seizures, anything.”

The photographs are shocking. Destiny Haust took them herself, stunned at what was going on in her own home. She said, “They seen the reaction on my face and she asked me, ‘Don’t you smoke weed with your kids?’ and I said no. And she said, ‘Why not? It puts them to sleep and calms them down,’”

Haust says Kristin Brewster was a friend who was staying with her at her mobile home in Seneca Falls. But she says she had never seen her treat her two-year-old boy or her six-month-old baby, like this.

The photos show Brewster and her boyfriend George Lavare forcing her little boy to smoke at times, even blowing it into his mouth.

Haust says as Brewster did that, the little boy tried to push her away. She says he just wanted attention. “All he wanted was to be held. He just kept saying mommy, hold me, mommy, hold me and she kept pushing him away.”

The manager of mobile home park says Brewster is not allowed to come back.

She calls the photos devastating. “I had to print the pictures for the State Troopers and I was like, “Oh my God’!”

Haust says right after she took them, she drove to see the state police who arrested Brewster and Lavare but Haust is concerned that the damage has already been done. “That little boy put it to his mouth and was smoking it like he was an adult and knew what he was doing. It was sad.”

 

 

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