Gambling Grandma Gets Off Light
The gambling grandmother who left her 23-month-old grandchild in a locked pickup on a warm day should have received a tougher sentence. Loretta Lynn Webb of Keefeton was ordered to pay a $200 fine and serve two years of probation in exchange for a guilty plea.
She had already lost custody of the granddaughter, who last August spent about 45 minutes in a locked pickup while Webb played the slot machines inside the Creek Nation Travel Plaza in Muskogee. We aren?t saying that Webb should have gone to prison. But her fine didn?t even equal the money, $265, she won during her 45 minutes of gambling while the child was dehydrating in the heat inside the pickup.
Webb, too, at 44 years old, is a young grandmother. She will be around children for many years to come. Her crime should have been impressed on her more with more years of probation and many hours of community service ? which could have included speaking at gamblers anonymous meetings.
June 28, 2006
Posted By Larry Rutherford
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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