Dale Phillips and Linda Petrait Taught An 11 Year-Old Drinking Games
July 29, 2009 by thinkgoat
Joplin, Missouri – Drinking is such a social event in almost every culture. Fridays after work, a group of employees will often meet up at a local bar and have a few cocktails to celebrate making it through yet another week without killing each other, their boss, or the one person they can’t stand in the office. CollegeCollege reviews
weekends were spent in Fraternity/Sorority Houses drinking with classmates and having a fine time. It was the college influence that introduced drinking games into the homes of thousands of people. Back in my day, “Bob” was sure to get you drunk off your ass in just a thirty minute span of time while watching the “Bob Newhart Show” (every time “Bob” was said, every one would drink) Quarters was another drinking game that was used to entertain AND intoxicate. Even though there is widespread participation of underage individuals playing these games, I don’t ever recall playing with an 11 year-old and certainly not to the point of him dying.
Dale Phillips Linda Petrait
Personally, I have seen one too many cases of under-aged people getting intoxicated to the point of alcohol poisoning, and even responded in a professional capacity to a couple of alcohol poisoning deaths of minors. And believe me, those cases are a bit difficult to shake off and put into perspective, as there is no perspective. But to be an 11 year-old spending time with a trusted uncle, one would think that time might be spent playing video games or watching a movie. One would certainly not imagine that evening being spent playing drinking games.
Dale Phillips and his live-in girlfriend Linda Petrait’s story didn’t quite pan out. Originally they claimed Dale’s 11 year-old nephew, Tyler Fecko got up in the middle of the night when everyone else was sleeping, opened the refrigerator and drank from a bottle of whiskey and returned to bed. I know many eleven year-olds. If it’s not milk or sweet, getting them past the taste of something different is pretty difficult, especially something like whiskey. When they awoke the next morning they found Tyler unconscious and not breathing.
When authorities were called to the scene, resuscitation efforts were not successful and he was pronounced dead. Although toxicology results will take a few weeks, the unofficial determination of death is alcohol poisoning. Dale and Linda gave their account to authorities and were released to return to their home. That is until family members called authorities to report this couple packing their bags in an attempt to split. They didn’t get real far. And as you might imagine, the story they gave previously didn’t exactly reflect the actual events that led to this child’s death.
The complaint filed in court stated the two knowingly “acted in a manner that created a substantial risk to the life and body and health of Tyler Fecko.” Dale Phillips and Linda Petrait have been charged with child endangerment and they’re both being held on $50,000 bail.
I don’t know if it was a case of Dale wanting his nephew to think he was cool or Tyler wanting to be cool. What a complete failure all the way around. It’s never cool to slip a child a drink, a smoke, or a little LSD. I’ve seen it all and unfortunately it will continue until grown-ups realize it’s one of the most un-cool things you can do.
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8:49 am on July 29th, 2009
They needed to be the adults here…..when your that young you don’t know when is enough. I don’t think I drank at 11, but I did drink underage and that was probably when I had the most of my stupid moments because I got beyond drunk ya know, it wasn’t just kick back, it was to be obliverated. How sad, I feel for this young boys parents.
9:17 am on July 29th, 2009
I drank at 11 until 19 when I got pregnant and havent drank since. I used to drink with my brothers then at about 16 I started to use fake id and drink with my mom. now i have no intrest to drink. It is sad to hear this happened and I think them trying to split tells that it was more than a n accident and there has to be more to the story. RIP Tyler
10:14 am on July 29th, 2009
They want us to believe an 11-yr-old guzzled down whiskey? Unless the kid was already on his way to becoming an alcoholic, I don’t see it. It’s not your typical “thirst quencher”.
12:34 pm on July 29th, 2009
No doubt, Dakota. Whiskey is NOT an 11 year old’s drink of choice, should they have one.
2:02 pm on July 29th, 2009
I was about that age when I had my first drink – Boone’s farm apple wine. Tried vodka and COULD NOT stomach it. Beer either. Whiskey is WAY out.
2:10 pm on July 29th, 2009
This makes me angry. My father did this with my brother, he felt it was his “duty” to introduce liquor to his only boy. As my brother grew, so did his taste for alcohol. Then when my father saw that my brother was drinking on his own, (big fucking surprise), he started hiding his liquor in a small refrigerator in his room. He went as far as to punish my brother for taking a liking to drinking.
This asshole probably felt it was his duty to give his nephew his first drink, well now we see it’s not such a great idea, now is it?
2:26 pm on July 29th, 2009
I was also about that age and mine was also Boone’s Farm….Strawberry Hill. I STILL don’t care for whiskey, and we all know what a lush I am.
2:28 pm on July 29th, 2009
I’m okay with parents giving their children alcohol in appropriate moderation; that’s commonplace in Europe. In fact, if parents here taught their children that alcohol was something to be appreciated (especially w/food) rather than guzzled for a high, we might have fewer binge drinking issues.
That said, playing quarters with an 11 year old is NOT “appropriate moderation”.
12:28 am on July 30th, 2009
While growing up, I hung around this clique of high school aged druggies. For high school, they were definitely hard core. On occasion these two kids would show up. They were brothers. One was 10 and the older one was 13. Now it didn’t bother me when these kids would smoke weed, but when they started drinking, it was like they had something to prove. I would leave when they started doing that…just for the above reason.
A kid sometimes thinks in his mind he/she is adult, but fail to realized that their bodies are more succeptible to what they ingest. That is bad enough in itself without some adult(?) moron goading the kid.
I hope they at least do time.
9:41 pm on July 30th, 2009
I know you guys are gonna be mad but my 12 year old nephew is living with my mom because he wouldn’t stay out of his moms stashes. Liquor,crack ect… He LOVES to not only brag but do just about about anything (drinking and anything else he can) that will make him feel cooler with the older kids so I can see where this could happen as I have actually seen it happen. But these two splitting does leave reason to believe that they were at fault and knowingly got him juked.
I am so glad my mom has my nephew but keeping him away from ANY substance has proven a hard & full time job for all of us yet he still brags & claims it at school.( I know my sis is a dream come true)
3:59 am on July 31st, 2009
charged with child endangerment? is THAT all?!!! gRrrrr
adults sold my underage daughter alcohol and now she is dead.
selling or giving alcohol to someone that is not old enough to buy it is a moronic thing to do. i know parents who gave their kids and their friends alcohol in their private home, thinking it would be safe because they (the parents) would keep an eye on them. only to have the kids sneak out of the house because they were INTOXICATED and didnt want to sit in the house. too many deaths to list. but here’s a couple. one girl got hit by a train (she’s on Kelli’s top friends). another girl & her intoxicated friends snuck out and took the family car- all 4 kids died.
my point is, when alcohol is involved, you cannot predict the outcome and there is a reason there is a age limit on who can buy it. we dont even have adults that drink making good decisions so it’s unrealistic to think kids can make good choices while drinking.
if a parent wants to take the risk of giving their OWN child alcohol, thats on them. just keep in mind, some will grow up and have the potential to become an alcoholic. why risk that by showing them before their lil brains are even developed– the great escape of alcohol?
ugh. sorry. obviously i’m passionate about this subject and know more about it than i EVER wanted to know.
xoxo Pam, Kelli’s mom
10:01 am on July 31st, 2009
mom of Kelli
I am so sorry for what happened to your family. The tribute you have for her is beautiful.
1:20 pm on August 1st, 2009
thank you so much Aslan. i appreciate you viewing Kell’s page & your kind post <3
xoxo Pam, Kelli's mom
1:20 am on August 3rd, 2009
I don’t want to say it’s the father’s (or uncle/grandfather/older brother’s) “duty” to buy his son his first beer/shot/drink…but it is sort of a rite of passage–WHEN THE KID IS 21!!!! And stop it at 1, maybe 2. Teach them moderation!
And as for this couple of fucks…I would take said bottle of whiskey and break it over one of their heads and then cut the other one with the broken bottle pieces! 11 years old?!?!?! Jesus…and who the heck keeps whiskey in the fridge? (I don’t drink whiskey, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t something to drink chilled)
1:39 pm on August 3rd, 2009
Almost as bad as putting ise cubes in it. I wouldn’t do that to any whisky worth drinking in the first place.
3:14 pm on August 3rd, 2009
Vodka and the like I’ll keep in the freezer but Whiskey stays out.
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