Dade City, Florida (The Weekly Vice) -- Christina Shehow, a 16 year old Pasco High School student has been arrested and charged with aggravated domestic violence for allegedly poisoning her mother.
Pasco, Florida officials arrested the 16 year old on Tuesday, amid allegations that the teen used seasoning salt to poison her mother, knowing her mother had a severe food allergy to seasoning salt.
Investigators say the teen admitted putting seasoning salt in her mother's food. She also told police that she was not happy with her home life, but did not intend to hurt her mother.
Lenna Mercer-Goodwin, the teens' 39 year old mother was attending her other daughter's baseball practice when she began having a severe reaction. Mercer-Goodwin was too ill to administer her own medication, so Shehow administered the epinephrine shot.
On May 7, Shehow's stepfather, William Goodwin, went to the sheriff's District II office and reported that he thought his stepdaughter might be tampering with his wife's food. He explained that his wife had been having severe unexplained allergic reactions to food, requiring doses from his wife's EpiPen.
The arrest affidavit also stated that Shehow's 11 year old sister, Samantha saw Christina Shehow sprinkle seasoned salt on her mother's food, but was too afraid to speak up. Samantha tol investigators that her sister threatened to "beat her up until she was dead" if she told, according to the police affidavit.
The incident was allegedly all precipitated when Shehow's mother took away the teens cell phone because had text messaged too much, going over the limit.
Christina Shehow has been charged on felony Aggravated Domestic Violence charges and was booked into the Juvenile Assessment Center in Land O' Lakes, Florida.
The Weekly Vice Opinion:
I couldn't find a mug shot listing, so the photo above came from Christina's MySpace profile, which has now been set to private. Note the MySpace mood "infuriated" which has been updated since Christina's release from jail.
Sounds like this teen is a spoiled brat who still doesn't realize that she could be in jail on attempted murder charges if Prosecutors had decided to go that way with the case.
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This little brat is lucky to be out. Is is quite an arrogant little thing.
She sounds to me like an ungrateful little bitch who still hasn't learned her lesson
It sounds to me like you people have no clue what you are talking about. It is easy to critisize when all you have is ONE news story that does not cover ALL the facts. If you don't know her or her family, keep your bullshit comments to yourself. One day you might find yourself or one of your family members plastered all over the internet and have to deal with ignorant people who have nothing better to do with their time. She is 16 yrs old for god's sake. It had nothing to do with a cell phone. Everyone makes mistakes and EVERY teenager at some point and time hated their parents. Get over your righteous, better than thou selves. You should be ashamed of putting this personal family matter out on the internet.
LCL
You are always welcome to advise us of the "facts" if they are in conflict with the arrest report.
We did capture a screenshot of Christina's MySpace page when Christina was first released, and vented a little on her MySpace page. We're certainly glad to see those comments were taken down.
We aren't posting those comments because EVERYONE has a right to change their mind, change their opinion and/or simply grow through an experience.
If you've had a change of heart, please enlighten me and I'll be the first to broadcast your point of view. My email address is posted in the top-right hand portion of the home page.
The ball is in your court. =)
Danny Vice
The comment @ May 29th 3:01pm is a bit...well.....Salty. From the report,this young woman isn't exactly what one would describe as "salt" of the earth.
To LCLshehow,
First, there is more than one news story on this incident - or haven't you noticed?
Second, if you don't want your name in the news, don't try to poison your mother.
And lastly, the fact that she is 16 is cause for GREATER alarm, not less. If a 16 year old is so bent that she's plotting to poison her own mother, she's either twisted or dumber than a rock.
Maybe if her parents can't get through to her, perhaps a little public accountability for what she did will have more influence - or at least make her think harder about the consequences of her actions.
She sounds like a sociopath to me, yeah 16 years olds get mad at their parents, but few of them go Menendez on them, nor do they threaten to beat their baby sisters "until they are dead". This girl needs extensive mental counseling, and that probably won't work.
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