A Bethlehem couple that held an underage drinking party for local high school students last Friday night is facing a host of criminal charges after one of the partygoers ended up in a hospital intensive care unit with alcohol poisoning.
The 18-year-old girl was dropped off, unconscious, at Barrow Regional Medical Center in the early morning hours of Saturday. According to a sheriff’s report, she was “totally unresponsive” and was receiving medical support to prevent brain damage or death.
Deputies were told by hospital staff that the girl had been dropped off by three adults who claimed they had found her lying in the Target parking lot.
“They said they did not know her, although they said her name and a street name of where she lived,” the report states.
When a member of the hospital staff mentioned calling the sheriff’s office, all three left the hospital. They were described as two white males and a white female, all around 40 years of age.
Through intensive investigative work, deputies located the people and learned about the party the previous evening where a large number of teens had been given alcohol and two of them, fresh tattoos.
Deputies went to the party location on Harvey Lokey Road and found “numerous liquor bottles and alcoholic containers,” a small amount of suspected methamphetamine, and “numerous tattoo guns, needles, equipment, and over 40 bottles of tattoo ink.”
Horace Hutchinson, 36, and his wife, Stacey Hutchinson, 28, are facing 22 charges, including violation of the controlled substances act, maintaining a disorderly house, contributing to the delinquency of minors, and furnishing alcohol to persons under 21.
Horace Hutchinson also faces charges of tattooing the body of persons under the age of 18, according to incident reports.
The injured girl has been released from the hospital, but the investigation is continuing, according to Barrow County Sheriff’s investigator Matt Guthas.
HORACE & STACEY HUTCHINSON
Teen critical after drinking party
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#1
HA!
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04/01/09 at 08:10 PM
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Wow! Look at these upstanding citizens.
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Michael McCarthy
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04/01/09 at 11:26 PM
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Despicable!
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Sshaw
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04/02/09 at 02:14 PM
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I think this is very sad, for many reason's, but it's a way of life for alot these teens around here and chances are they will grow up to be just like those 2 that allowed this to happen. Monkey see....Monkey do!!!
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Anonymous
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04/03/09 at 04:37 AM
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My favorite part is that they were described as "around 40 years of age" and she's only 28!!!
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Stef
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04/03/09 at 12:09 PM
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I feel no sympathy. Its not a way of life... it was a choice. Those teens went there and knew what was going to happen...Drinking, drugs, and whatever else they could think of. As far as the loser "Adults", they too new what was going to happen...A free for all. Prime example why we need selective breeding so that people like this dont have children.
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Joe Christmas
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04/03/09 at 05:35 PM
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Well Stef what if we had selective breeding for people that only use correct grammar. Such as spelling the word knew not new or learning to use an apostrophe. The Nazis believed in selective breeding you should go join them and leave us alone.
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rod
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04/03/09 at 05:45 PM
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This is what I call trash these two people need to be sent off for life. Apparently these two people have been doing drugs all their lives and destroyed all of the cells in the brain. Oh but don't they look cool.
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g
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04/05/09 at 07:39 AM
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Prime example why we need selective breeding so that people like this dont have children. I agree with this statement, but those children were not even those idiots kids. Its another prime example that teens PARENTS should know where there children are. It is our resposibility as parents to watch over our children NO MATTER WHAT THERE AGE IS! Its our responsibility to know where our kkids are. Its our resposibility to know who our kids are hanging out with and who's home they are going to.