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Man jailed for taking dead mom's morphine [MA]
#5260757 - 02/03/06 08:59 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Man jailed for taking dead mom's morphine February 3, 2006 - boston.com
BARNSTABLE, Mass. --A Martha's Vineyard man is charged with taking morphine from his mother's intravenous drip minutes after she died.
Robert S. Peatie, 37, was arrested last week after a nurse at Cape Cod Hospital caught him pouring the morphine into a water bottle, the Cape Cod Times reported Friday.
His 62-year-old mother, Linda Peatie, had just died from an undisclosed illness.
The nurse, Maureen Beckler, told the newspaper she left Robert Peatie alone in the room while she sought a doctor to pronounce Linda Peatie dead.
Beckler returned to find the son "standing next to the IV stand holding the morphine bag. He was trying to pour it into a water bottle. He looked at me and said, 'I just need a minute more.'"
Beckler said she ordered the son away from the IV, and Peatie fled.
Police caught up to him at a restaurant near the hospital and charged him with larceny of a controlled substance and possession of morphine.
According to Hyannis police Detective Brian Guiney, Peatie later admitted pouring the morphine into the bottle and taking sips from it.
"After his mother was dead, that's when he took the top of the morphine bag off and poured it into his water bottle," Guiney wrote in his report.
Police said Peatie, a Vineyard Haven electrician, has a history of substance abuse.
"My brother is very sick," Jennifer Thompson, Peatie's sister, told the Times. She said she had forgiven her brother because that's what there mother would have wanted.
A judge ordered Peatie held on $2,000 bail at a hearing Wednesday in Barnstable Superior Court. His next scheduled court date is Feb. 17.
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Re: Man jailed for taking dead mom's morphine [MA] [Re: veggie]
#5260935 - 02/03/06 09:47 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I read that article earlier...my favorite part is Quote:
Beckler returned to find the son "standing next to the IV stand holding the morphine bag. He was trying to pour it into a water bottle. He looked at me and said, 'I just need a minute more.'"
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Re: Man jailed for taking dead mom's morphine [MA] [Re: veggie]
#5261434 - 02/04/06 01:03 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Son of the Year.
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Re: Man jailed for taking dead mom's morphine [MA] [Re: veggie]
#5261557 - 02/04/06 02:52 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wow that is pretty disrespectful, I guess he didn't quite have the greatest relationship with his mother.
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Re: Man jailed for taking dead mom's morphine [MA] [Re: eris]
#5261869 - 02/04/06 08:22 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Bah, you people. I'm sure he wanted it to kill some of the emotional pain of just having lost his mother...
Either that or he was a cold-hearted prick.
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Re: Man jailed for taking dead mom's morphine [MA] [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5261891 - 02/04/06 08:35 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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wow hello morphine addict lol.
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Re: Man jailed for taking dead mom's morphine [MA] [Re: RemainRandom50]
#5262760 - 02/04/06 02:13 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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after my dad died i'd find bottles of pain killers around his house and i'd keep them. so when i read the title of this thead i was thinking "what's wrong with that?". but damn
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