Parents Charged With Throwing Teen Kegger

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This has plagued the news all night. for real? i was drinking at keg parties at 14; however, my mom never hosted them.

2 Charged With Throwing

Teen Kegger

ABINGTON, Pa. - A Montgomery County mother is accused of throwing a keg party for her 15-year-old son and dozens of his friends, according to prosecutors.

Investigators said one of the kids at the party in Abington Township got so drunk he had to be taken to a hospital, and another was found stumbling around outside.

They said two adults are responsible: the mother and her ex-boyfriend.

"Hi, mom," said the boyfriend as he turned himself in Thursday. His name is Daniel McIntyre but kids in Jenkintown call him "Shades."

"I, personally, would never give a minor anything -- no alcohol, no nothing," McIntyre said.

But he's in trouble for exactly that, accused of giving alcohol to minors during the keg party at the Jenkintown home a couple of months ago.

Asked what he saw when he went over to the party, McIntyre said, "Too many kids." He said he didn't know if they were all drinking, and he didn't see beer there.

"No, I never saw any cans of beer or kegs or anything," he told Fox 29's Claudia Gomez.

But police said McIntyre is a liar. They said when an officer showed up the night of the party, he gave a fake name, and insisted the kids were only watching a movie. So the officer left.

However, investigators said just inside McIntyre's ex-girlfriend, Kathleen Tompkins, played hostess to as many as 50 junior high students, some as young as 14.

What's more, authorities allege McIntyre himself fixed the malfunctioning keg so the kids could drink.

"I have never seen a situation where kids this young were being provided alcohol and allowed to drink by parents. These kids are barely out of puberty," Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said.

Tompkins lives in the home with her 15-year-old son, who had invited his friends from school. Police said photos show just how wild the party got. The ping pong table became the "beer pong" table, and nearby was an empty keg.

Police returned a couple of hours later to find about a dozen kids under the influence.

"To think that a parent is teaching them how to drink, how to play drinking games, and how to lie to the police, is very distressing," Ferman said.

Tompkins is turning herself in to authorities Thursday. She and McIntyre are facing misdemeanor charges, but the D.A. said she's hoping the public humiliation will serve as warning to other parents who are thinking about doing the same thing, Gomez reported.

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Edited April 24, 2009 by Road Warrior