Jonathan Hope And Lisa Guerin
Accidents happen. Fact of life. And another fact is they happen very easily and very often to children. The best parents on the planet need only look away for a second and something can happen to their cherished offspring. Accidents are unfortunate, but not necessarily a crime. Jonathan Hope and Lisa Guerin were not the best parents on the planet — not even close, and it was how they reacted to an accident that was truly a crime.
At 2 o’clock in the afternoon back in April, 2006 Calgary paramedics and police found themselves in a basement suite in a southwest Calgary fourplex. The suite was decidedly in a poor state according to Detective Theresa Garagan. There were numerous cats and kittens running around (which to some people is good), some cat feces on the floor (which is not so good), and one naked little dead girl (indisputably bad).
She was a pretty little thing, was Summer Hope, with red hair, cherubic face and two front teeth, laying there on her Winnie the Pooh blanket. She looked too healthy to be dead, but dead she was. Strange. And stranger yet, the baby’s father, Jonathan Hope, told paramedics that he tried to revive the girl with CPR for five hours (yes, FIVE hours). He said he didn’t call 911 because his phone wasn’t working.
Let’s just think about it. Wouldn’t you, wouldn’t everybody run up the stairs and outside yelling for help, carrying Summer’s little 23 pound body? Even I, with my bad back and bad knee, using a cane, would have scrambled up those stairs and taken her to a neighbor’s, screaming for help the whole way.
But what did Jonathan Hope do? He told the paramedics that besides performing CPR he managed to devise a homemade makeshift defibrillator using the wires of a lamp. Did you get that? A defibrillator out of a lamp! I guess the big idea was to jumpstart his baby daughter’s little heart.
Now I don’t know about you, but when confronted by a medical emergency such as an unresponsive child, my instinct would always be to get professional help and never to disassemble home appliances to cobble together a defibrillator, even if I were a trained designer of defibrillators.
Jonathan Hope is not a trained designer of anything. He’s an addict. And his whole Dr. Frankenstein-ish attempts to restart his daughter with electricity were a panicky last ditch effort to conceal what had really happened to Summer.
See, Summer Hope did not die of natural causes. Her 16-month-old body stopped working because it was contaminated with methadone. For those who don’t know, a lethal dose of the drug causes the brain to shut down and breathing to 
stop. Methadone is so dangerous that ingesting even a small amount could put a child in a coma in 30 minutes.
So who would be stupid and irresponsible enough have methadone around children? Why, that would be f*tards Jonathan Hope and Lisa Guerin.
Bet you were wondering when we’d mention the mother.
Dr. Ian Postnikoff, who worked at a methadone treatment clinic, testified at trial that Jonathan the drug addict had once been allowed to take home daily doses of methadone BUT the privilege to take doses home was revoked in January 2006 because of Jonathan Hope’s criminal record.
Jonathan Hope was receiving about 260 milligrams of methadone, one of the highest doses of the drug that the clinic was dispensing, said Dr. Postnikoff.
Now if Jonathan Hope was not allowed to take doses home, HOW did it wind up in Summer’s system? It seems that the f*tard drank his dose of methadone mixed with orange juice at the downtown clinic, but spit some of it into a coffee cup, which he took home.
WHY the hell would he sneak methadone to his home? Who knows, but for me the testimony of the witness Amanda MacDonald makes sense. She was a friend of Lisa, and she testified that Lisa Guerin asked Jonathan Hope to sneak some home from his treatment clinic in a coffee cup so that she could see what it would do to her. Believable, right? If the methadone was meant for Jonathan, all he had to do was swallow it at the clinic.
Regardless, the methadone was in a cup in the home and obviously within reach of the toddler. Here the story gets all he said-she said.
Jonathan Hope testified Lisa Guerin was looking after Summer while he went to a gas station and when he got back the cup was on the floor. Supposedly Lisa then told him Summer hadn’t swallowed it, and she’d rinsed the baby’s mouth out anyway. He suggested taking Summer to the hospital but Lisa nixed that and then left home. All of this transpired at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. He didn’t notice anything wrong with his daughter until the morning after, which is the day he did his heroic CPR/defibrillating thing in the hours before the paramedics were summoned.
That’s his story.
Lisa Guerin merely denied knowing anything at all about it. She saw nothing, heard nothing, knew nothing about the methadone. Completely ignorant. She believed her daughter had pizza sauce on her face, but there was no stain on her shirt to indicate she’d had anything to drink. Choking back tears on the stand, Lisa said she thought Summer had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and didn’t find out about the methadone until much later.
That’s her story.
Her former friend and drinking buddy Amanda MacDonald testified that on that Saturday Jonathan Hope and Lisa Guerin were packing the car so Lisa and Amanda could drive to Rocky Mountain House to perform as exotic dancers. 
She was in the living room with the couple’s son when she saw Summer wander towards the master bedroom. She then returned, her chin damp and her shirt stained with reddish-orange liquid.
“Oh my God, Jonathan, she just drank your methadone!” Amanda told the court Lisa had exclaimed.
As Summer sat between them on the hide-a-bed in the living room, Lisa asked Amanda what would happen to her daughter. Good idea — asking the professional medical opinion of a non-professional, non-medical stripper.
“She just drank watered down heroin,” Amanda said she replied. “She’s going to get sick but I don’t think she’s going to die.”
She also said she told Lisa they should not go to Rocky Mountain House because Summer needed medical treatment, but Lisa Guerin was adamant. Besides the stripping gig, there was a lover waiting for her there. She had her priorities!
The couple then fought with each other for a bit but neither sought medical attention for the little girl. The women hopped in the car and drove off without looking back.
Remember how methadone would have rendered the sweet little toddler comatose within 30 minutes? It boggles the mind that in less than half an hour after ingesting methadone Summer Hope was out of sight and out of mind for that pair of f*tards. Lisa was long gone, and heaven only knows what Jonathan Hope was doing but it sure wasn’t bothering with Summer.
And the saddest thing of all, a drug called naloxone could have reversed the effect of her overdose if she’d gotten it in time. She needn’t have died at all! Her parents hadn’t intended to kill her — the overdose was accidental after all, but undoubtedly their callous disregard and stupendous stupidity following the overdose did kill her. And for that may they suffer in hell.
Jonathan Hope and his now former partner, Lisa Guerin, were brought to trial in March 2010.
Jonathan Hope really impressed the court when he showed up drunk on the opening day of his trial. Way to go, idiot!
Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Earl Wilson found them guilty of failing to provide the necessities of life in the death of their 16-month-old daughter. He acquitted them of two other, more serious, charges of manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death. The Crown failed to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, said Justice Wilson. Testimony from Amanda MacDonald, the prosecution’s star witness, was not entirely believable, he said.
Defense lawyers had argued Amanda was not credible because she admitted to using cocaine daily for many years.
In handing down the conviction, Justice Earl Wilson said that regardless of whether or not the couple knew for certain that their child had ingested methadone, a responsible parent would have sought medical assurances that she was OK.
“Common sense exercised by the prudent parent is to take no chance when there’s even a possibility that a child’s been poisoned,” said Justice Wilson. “No real willingness was shown by either parent to do that.”
“”[Hope] couldn’t even get off his hindquarters and go down the street. An abandonment of parental responsibility is perhaps the understatement of the year,” said Justice Wilson.
Failure to provide the necessities of life carries a maximum prison sentence of five years. So they got five years, right? Wrong! Jonathan Hope was sentenced to a whopping 2½ years in prison. He got credit for the months he spent in pre-sentence custody so that reduced his time remaining to two years. He gets out in March 2012.
Hope will serve his sentence in a federal penitentiary so he can have better access to addictions programs.
Lisa Guerin, now 30, read a written statement from the prisoner’s dock before sentencing:
“There is not a day goes by that I don’t think about Summer. Every day, I think about that day four years ago. Knowing what I know now I could have stopped this tragedy from ever happening. The pain never goes away and never gets easier to manage. It hurts and never stops hurting. Losing my baby caused wounds that will never heal. I wish I could trade places with her.”
As to Lisa Guerin, Justice Wilson said her “callous and cavalier attitude” to her daughter swallowing the opiate was “stunning, and that it was “unfathomable” that she then left. “But such is the narcissistic character in the nature of Lisa Guerin,” the judge said. While her moral culpability was high, he thought the sentencing range of three to four years sought by the Crown prosecutor was excessive.
Lisa Guerin was sentenced to 2½ years in prison, and with DOUBLE credit for her pre-trial detention (2 days credit for every day served), she had six months left to serve. So as of September, 2010, Lisa is free to carry on with her life.
And Summer is still dead. She’d had 16 months on this earth and was entitled to decades more. It’s a crying shame that she had such a hopeless father in Jonathan Hope, a pathetic addict who wouldn’t get his daughter real medical help to save her life. And it’s downright criminal she was dependent on a mother who purposely chose a stripping gig and a lover over her own baby’s welfare. Maybe as Lisa Guerin ages, wrinkles and sags, and the stripping gigs and lovers dwindle, she’ll finally realize that she’d thrown away the most precious thing of all.
Editor’s Notes: I always find it amusing when a judge reams out a convicted criminal from the bench prior to sentencing, knowing full well that the sentence he plans to impose doesn’t come close to providing justice for the victim and the victim’s loved ones. It’s especially ludicrous when, as in this case, the defendants escaped conviction on the more serious, and of course, most appropriate charges they faced.
Take our two friends here, Jonathan Hope And Lisa Guerin. Now I don’t blame them so much for allowing little Summer to get into the cup of Methadone. Anyone who’s had children go through the toddler stage knows that Murphy’s Law was thought up by just such a parent. Whatever can go wrong WILL go wrong, and whatever you leave in a place that’s accessible to a toddler will be found and (eaten, drank, played with) by that toddler.
In this case, it would have been called accidental ingestion.
But when they chose not to get immediate medical treatment for Summer Hope, They should have known they were putting their daughter in grave danger. It doesn’t matter how stupid or how high they were, what matters is what a reasonable person would do in this situation.
There may be lawyers out there who can correct me is I get the details incorrect, but technically speaking Jonathan Hope And Lisa Guerin committed manslaughter by just not caring. Lisa didn’t want to miss out on a chance to get laid by her new boyfriend, and Jonathan just didn’t want to be bothered. The term for that is “depraved indifference”, and there are lots of people in prison because of it.
But somehow Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Earl Wilson, applying the law in a way I can’t wrap my mind around, ruled that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that Jonathan Hope And Lisa Guerin knew how dangerous methadone was.
Lemme tell you something about my experience with methadone. Back before I got clean, one of the ways I controlled my chronic migraine headaches was with hardcore prescription narcotics from a pain management clinic. One month the doctor decided to try methadone on me. I took a 40 mg dose, which is not a lot for someone who had as high a tolerance as I did. I then went to lay down.
When I awoke two hours later, I was soaked from my knees to my neck in urine – that’s right, I had pissed myself, something I hadn’t done since I was a 4-year-old. I cleaned up myself and the bed, and after 8 hours had passed, I took my next dose of methadone. This time I didn’t go to bed, but that didn’t stop me from falling asleep while watching TV. Again, when I awoke, I was drenched in my own piss.
After this episode, it never happened again, but no drug I’d ever taken before or since – even LSD and PCP – had ever caused me to lose control of my bodily functions like that. THAT’S how powerful methadone is. And if Jonathan hope was experienced user of it, he knew how dangerous it was for a little baby to take it.
Look, if I walked into a room, and I found my 16-month-old daughter sitting in front of an open bottle of fucking baby aspirin, that would have been enough for me to take that child to the emergency room IMMEDIATELY. It’s just common sense to assume the worse in cases like that, especially since the baby can’t tell you how it’s feeling. You absolutely MUST err on the side of caution.
Whatever happened to common sense? Why aren’t people like Jonathan Hope And Lisa Guerin at least held to a minimum standard of behavior? Why was Justice Wilson more interested in making excuses for these two imbeciles than holding them accountable for the death of their child, 16-month-old Summer Hope?
I think I have a good grasp of what is right and what is wrong, but cases like this one shake that foundation every time I hear about one. I believe people who cause the death of their own child simply because they just didn’t care enough should have to suffer for a long time, but since Justice Earl Wilson believes otherwise, Jonathan Hope And Lisa Guerin will get back to their shitty lives in less than two years.
Summer Hope will still be dead in two years, likely forgotten by her “parents”. But I won’t forget her. I’ll carry a little bit of pain for her, in the place where I keep the memory of all the dead and murdered children I’ve read and heard about. And life will go on…
Should Jonathan Hope And Lisa Guerin Burn In Hell?
- Yes (93%, 336 Votes)
- No (7%, 24 Votes)
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I was terrified many years ago because my toddler son got into my ibuprofen, for goodness sake. He’d been on phenobarb for a couple years by then to control the seizures and thought nothing of opening the bottle I’d stupidly left out with the cap not on properly when I got up in the wee hours in pain, and munching on the pills.
Luckily he only got one, and I have just skipped taking pain meds if I’m that tired since then, but you can bet I was on the phone with poison control as soon as I’d cleared out the kiddo’s mouth. I sat there counting the pills while on the phone to be sure of how many he’d eaten.
My ex takes methadone for pain, and it’s a wonder drug for him after all the years of tylenol 3 and morphine and oxycodone, etc. But there’s no question it is extremely dangerous, and many of his family members offered to buy some off him to get high. It’s not heroin, and supposedly not addictive (and the body isn’t supposed to get tolerant of it the way it does for the other pain meds, according to the ex’s doc) but anything used as a mood alter can become addictive.
This story is so terribly sad- this beautiful little child (like so many others) victimized by cruel apathy. You need a license to drive, hunt or fish; but any asshole can have a baby. The opposite of love is not hate- it’s indifference. How heartbreaking…
Anyway you look at it, the kid probably didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell at life – sometimes ya gotta wonder what was meant to be -
I totally agree with this. What kind of life would she have had? I am not justifying her death by any means, but my god, with parents like that…
I won’t forget her either. She now resides in the broken part of my heart with every other baby in this world who has been senselessly murdered. :(
One of my old girlfriends turned out to be a real loser…. her and her X both lost the kids – she the daughter and he the son.
I am facebook friends with the daughter. She was adopted by a nice Christain family and she’s hard working and prettier than her mother ever was.
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this story, being that I live in Calgary. It is the first time I’ve heard the WHOLE story, however, and I’m finding myself absolutely stunned by just how fucking stupid these two morons are. I’m not a parent, but even if I saw someone else’s baby downing any sort of medication — let alone methadone — you can bet your ass I’d be dialing 9-11 ASAP. What kind of sorry excuse for a mother drives off to another town in order to strip all the while knowing that her baby is at home, ODing on narcotics?
And if his little lamp-wire defibrillator story is true, Jonathan Hope may very well be the dumbest motherfucker in Calgary.
Hell, if it’s true, he’s probably secured his place in the global top ten…
Also, just to add to the example of how strong methadone can be: My friend’s ex-boyfriend, whom she dated for a few months about four or five years ago, drowned in his bathtub after taking a fairly low dose of methadone. Now, to put this in perspective, this was a guy who would take 8-10 hits of ecstasy, down all of it at the same time with some vodka and then spend the next few hours snorting lines of coke (she broke up with him because she wanted to stop using drugs, and he wasn’t helping). He graduated to heroin, and somehow got his hands on a fairly low dose of methadone (not sure of the exact mg, but I know it was significantly lower than what Jonathan Hope was taking). As far as anyone can tell, he never regained consciousness after passing out in the bath tub, even when he was drowning. If it had that drastic of an effect on a hardcore drug addict, I can only imagine how badly it would have affected that poor little girl.
10 mg can kill someone that hasn’t used opiates previously. I’m assuming this was concluded by doing studies on adults. I’m also assuming Summer probably wasn’t a regular user of opiates.
Yeah, when my ex started the methadone, even though he’d been taking other opiates for years (legally) to try and manage his pain, he pretty much slept through the first month. He lost about 40 lbs because he was simply too sleepy to eat anything (granted, by then he was about 360).
And he was a BIG dude. And he was on a slowly graduated dose!
Most peaceful month I ever spent married to him. :P
“Maybe as Lisa Guerin ages, wrinkles and sags, and the stripping gigs and lovers dwindle, she’ll finally realize that she’d thrown away the most precious thing of all.” An excellent point on which to end. Though having such a high opinion of humans in general, I’m sure she’ll find some way to blame someone else for her loss and for her increasing bitterness at the injustice of life.
And Max, your comment after the story made the anger I felt at the ridiculous stupidity and needlessness of Summer Hope’s death seem insignificant as I realized the sadness of it all.
Still, I can’t help but wonder, why does the stupidity of these kinds of parents always have to go and bite their children in the ass? Why can’t it – for once – bite the parents? There are good parents out there who have no children. And bad ones who – one way or another – destroy their own. Maybe I’m crazy, but an exchange of some kind doesn’t seem like such a bad idea…
I’ll never forget you either Summer. There is no part of my brain that can understand when a woman watches her belly grow, feels him/her move inside of her, delivers, and then is not be completely obsessed with his/her well-being. So sad.
And don’t let me forget the dumb ass dad. He didn’t notice anything until the morning after? Maybe because little bitty Summer went to sleep pretty quickly. This happened at 5:30, so say around 6:00? Knowing what the baby drank, why wasn’t that noticed?
And I agree with you so much Homer. Every time I read one of these stories I think of how senseless it is when there are so many people out there who would’ve loved and cherished them. People who’s greatest wish is to be parents.
People like this are allowed to procreate. Yet same-sex couples aren’t allowed to adopt in some places. Unbelievable.
I don’t really understand the relevancy of this comment, given it’s legal for Gay couples and Lesbian couples to adopt in Calgary and Alberta. Crimes by parents occur against children whether the district or municipality allows same sex couples to adopt or not. I support same-sex adoption, in part because I have a lovely niece from the arrangement who is one of the top seven innocent joys of my life. Adding this comment here, muddying this topic, hurts the power those words would have if used more constructively elsewhere.
I think the comment is meant to point out the idiocy in it being illegal for some couples to have children at all, even as they truly want and deserves them yet, 2 drug addicted sleaze bags can have a child and essentially get away with murdering it.
I get that, I’m even on her side of that debate, I just don’t see how conflating this with that helps our side or in any attempt to understand this event. It’s like me making a non-sequitur on the Diane Schuler case and saying, as drunk as she was, it makes me think about how glad I am that I wasn’t killed in the Rwanda genocide, but it sure does make me think about all of those lost lives.
There will be some and may even now be some bad Gay or Lesbian adoptive parents. Just because there are bad straight parents, doesn’t mean we need to give the other side any ammo by conflating the evaluation based on the fact that these bad guys were heterosexual and biological not adoptive. There are articles on this site about bad foster parents and at least one set of bad adoptive parents, so I feel confident in saying, this segues into something we shouldn’t stress as part of that debate. There’s nothing good and nothing bad there.
I agree that there isn’t any direct correlation between the two.
Sometimes it’s easy to get offended on issues like that, especially if they hit close to home. I don’t think it was their intention to push any buttons or degrade the issue in any way. I’m sure they meant well. 8)
I can understand where the original commenter is coming from, as I often find myself reflecting on the fact that there are places where loving gay couples are unable to adopt, even though they’re able to do so in Alberta, whenever faced with a story like this one. However, I usually bite my tongue; it doesn’t seem appropriate to hijack the comments section to rant about it. This post is about little Summer Hope, and the injustice that was done to her.
Wow, I didn’t even expect a response. Just to defend my post, I’ll say this….For people who want children, it’s heartbreaking to read about cases like this, where stupid people just stumble into parenthood and treat their children as burdens, not gifts. I imagine infertile couples who genuinely want children feel especially offended by cases like these, but they, at least, can adopt. Same-sex couples can’t adopt in many places in the world (yes, I realize this case happened in Calgary, but I was attempting to speak to a broader issue). I can understand that some think I’m conflating the issue, but I was just giving my personal opinion. Hearing about bad parents makes me think of people who are not allowed to be good parents. That’s the long and short of it.
Btw, I really didn’t intend to “hijack” the comments section, I just made an off-handed comment. Sheesh. I’m not trolling the site or anything, I just wanted to add my two cents. But I won’t bring up the topic again, so the issue should be settled.
You’re fine, if anything, I want to stress I believe in the comment, but feel like it didn’t speak to the context of the article and of the crime.
OK, I apologize and won’t bring it up again. So it’s settled.
What the fuck! You have to be joking. I work as a lab tech in a hospital and u see shit like kids gettin into tylenol and stuff like that but fucking methadone!?!? Both of these people need to be sterilized immediately at the very least! Let em fucking burn! And what kinda goddamn tree hugging hippies voted no on let em burn? Also what kind of justice does Canada consider their sentences to be? Jesus h I think I just got a fuckin ulcer reading this.
The one point of the article that I cannot agree with is Summer getting the cup not being the parents’ fault. IT IS their fault. I realize that children get in to things…it never ceases to amaze me the number of things my kids found joy in playing with…toilet paper rolls, egg cartons, milk jugs…but, those were all normal everyday household items, right? A cup of methadone is not a normal everyday item. If you’re going to bring methadone home, and you have a baby in the house, for God’s sake put it in a safe place. Use your brain (though if you’re bringing it home for said purposes you don’t have much of one to begin with).
As a parent it is our responsibility to keep our children safe. Part of that responsibility is either putting dangerous things out of their reach or eliminating them all together. That’s why you can find items for baby proofing in just about any store. It’s not a difficult task, and the beneficial aspects of baby-proofing your home far outweigh the hassle of having to deal with things like outlet covers and toilet latches. If you don’t do what you can to keep your children safe, things like this happen….the saddest part is, they are so easily avoided with the use of common sense.
Common sense is a rare commodity for that pair. Every step of the way they were criminally stupid. That wee girl did not have to die, and hopefully those two will not ever find themselves with other babies to take care of. Unhappily stupidity does not equal sterility.
I agree. Sometimes I wish that stupidity was physically painful. I believe there’d be a lot less morons around…and if that didn’t work well, at least we would have someone to point at and laugh. 8)
I take a number of different medications (prescribed, not recreational). As previously mentioned, I don’t have kids, and none of my medication is anywhere near as powerful as methadone. It’s also all within childproof containers. Despite all of this, I would never leave my meds sitting out in the open, even in their childproof containers, because A) I have friends who have kids, and I would feel horrible if they brought them over and one ended up getting sick after ingesting my meds, and B) I have two cats. If a dose of methadone ever ended up in my home for whatever reason, you can bet your ass that it would be locked away somewhere safe.
Leaving powerful medications out in the open when you have a young child in the house is neglect, plain and simple. Not only that, but Hope wasn’t supposed to have methadone in his home, yet his child wound up with the drug in her system. He committed a felony by having it in his possession, and his daughter died as a direct result of that felony. As such, he should have been guilty of manslaughter. Guerin’s role in all of this might not be as clear, but she should have been guilty of criminal neglect for failing to seek medical attention for her daughter, at the very least.
I’m hoping that the crown will appeal the case. These two sorry excuses for parents shouldn’t get off so easily, especially when anyone with a brain can see that they’re guilty of a hell of a lot more than “failing to provide the necessities of life”.
Agreed. This was much, much more than a case of medical neglect. When you step back and look at the facts as they have been presented, you can plainly see that they directly caused the death of their child. The punishment should fit the crime, and unfortunately in this case, the judge missed it by a mile.
I do have children, and I put my medications (I don’t care if it’s tylenol, or even ambesol) up on top of my refrigerator or on the highest shelf of my cupboard (I have 12 ft high ceilings…so that should be high enough, right? lol)
I can almost hear the conversation between these two:
“oh my gosh, I think our baby girl just drank the methadone”
“what the fuck do you mean she drank the methadone you dumbass, why the hell did you let her drink it you fucking moron?!”
“it was in the bedroom on the dresser, I didn’t think she would get into it”
“oh well, just give the brat some water, maybe that will dissolve it. I’m off to get a piece of ass and dance around in my butt floss, so don’t wait up for me!”
“but I-”
” I don’t want to fucking hear it, you are a low-life with out a job, and if that means I gotta shake my ass and have a few side screws to make some money to pay the damn bills around here, so be it, you retarded retard”
“okay..”
“fuck off, loser!”
-exit stupid egg donor whore and her even more idiotic coked out friend-
*you can hear the tires from their 82 Fort Pinto kicking up rocks as the father looks at the child.*
“I guess you are going to be okay, maybe you didn’t swallow the methadone, maybe you just spilled it on yourself”
*some hours later*
“OH MY GOD MAYBE THE KID DID SWALLOW IT!”
*father rips off his food encrusted clothes to reveal a super hero costume with the initials SRD on the front under a handicap sign*
“SUPER RETARD DAD TO SAVE THE DAY WITH THIS LAMP CORD I FASHIONED INTO A DERFRIBULATOOR!”
***** I’m sorry, but I fought temptation long enough…no offense to Summer Hope, who was truly victimized twice, not only in her death, but also when sentencing was brought upon two of the most stupidest human beings who had a blatant disregard for their own child’s life RIP SUMMER HOPE YOUR DUMBASS PARENTS WILL NEGLECT YOU NO LONGER!******
Sadly, I think it went more like this (after mommy-of-the-year left to go strip):
Hope: Oh well, guess I better drink/get high/play X-Box.
*a few hours pass*
Hope: Summer seems to be sleeping soundly. Maybe I should go check on her… after I finish my beer/take another hoot/beat this level.
*another couple hours pass*
Hope: Shit, I forgot to check on her. *goes to check* Oh fuck. FUCK. *makes half-assed effort to perform CPR* Ugh, which side is the heart on? Left or right? Right? No, left… no, definitely right. Wait, it’s in her stomach, right? Oh shit, man, she’s dead. Okay, daddy-of-the-year, let’s think. *lights smoke*
*spends 45 minutes pacing around in a panic, smoking/drinking/getting high, before he finally builds up the courage to call 911*
*cops arrive*
Cop: Oh my fucking god. *calls EMS while attempting proper CPR, quickly realizes that she’s been dead for a while, then turns back to Hope* What the fuck did you do? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Hope: She drank some… uh… some methadone that just so happened to be left out on the night stand.
Cop: What!? You had methadone on the night stand? Whose methadone?
Love: …mine, but, dude, I swear to god, I was totally performing CPR for the last five hours and even used some wires to zap her like they do on those doctor shows. I’m a fucking hero and stuff, man. It was all Lisa’s fault. She wanted me to bring it home so she could try it, she made me! I totally wasn’t sitting on my ass, ignoring Summer while I did my own shit. Nope. No way. Wouldn’t do that. Didn’t pull my story out of my ass at all.
~Fin~
Or, in fewer words, I don’t buy his story about five hours of CPR and the defibrillator attempt. Dude was trying to cover his ass.
And, in any case, he’s still a fuck up. Whether ignoring the kid while they OD or performing the “Hi everybody!” “Hi Dr. Nick!” version of retard CPR for five hours, this guy was a selfish moron who was too afraid to admit he had stolen methadone to save his daughter’s life.
It’s probably closer to the truth than most dare think.
I do not think that Summer would have been better off if the father had a job and the mother stayed with her……
Trash. That’s it. Pure and simple. Dirty low life shit gobbling white trash. They’re filthy and stupid, and they love being filthy and stupid. Hell they REVEL in it.
Poor little thing, but maybe she wouldn’t have had much of a life.
“police found themselves in a basement suite in a southwest Calgary fourplex.” So did they actually live in the basement or were they in the basement section of their fourplex?
A basement suite in a fourplex would be an apartment in the basement. I’m not sure why that’s confusing, but I hope this helps.
wow…the basement apartment is considered a suite now..
It’s the best thing pole dancing can afford..
I can imagine a future, not too far off, where no one ever gets convicted for anything or punished for anything. We’re on our way to that. There’s always an excuse, or a circumstance, or something. Or a moron judge who decide that the perps DIDN’T KNOW HOW DANGEROUS METHADONE WAS (**shouting in outrage**).
I know, right? It’s like shooting someone in the head and then saying that you didn’t know the bullet would go through someone’s brain if you pulled the trigger. It’s absolutely ludicrous.
And the worst part is, there’s always some bastard of a judge or motherfuckin idiot of a juror who buys it . . .
I’m so paranoid, I have baby lotion put up as high as a step ladder could reach for me, and I’m 5”8 and a half.
…” Losing my baby caused wounds that will never heal. I wish I could trade places with her.”……..so do I you skank infested rabid dog….
True that.
Back in the day, I had a rip-assed fight with my grandmother, and neither one of us was watching my two year old daughter, who pulled up a chair and started munching down on my prenatal vitamins (gag). I had to take her directly to the ER – right then – where they fed her ipecac. As an added bonus, they made me hold her the whole time she cried and threw up. I felt like a complete asshole. But for Christ’s sake I didn’t just pass it off, saying, “Maybe she didn’t eat too many.” Poor Summer. At least your needless death was hopefully painless and you just went to sleep. You were born behind the eight-ball with those two pigs as parents.
responsible mommy award for you! my mom told me once that when i was a baby, i chewed/slobbered on her epilepsy meds. she SAW that i only really touched one to my mouth, and she STILL took me to the hospital. of course, they said i was fine, as i didn’t ingest it and my drool didn’t break up enough of it to really get into my system, but that is what RESPONSIBLE mommies do. err on the side of caution. not just ”oh hey she can sleep it off.”
Oh man this is so sad and something that could have been prevented. Just last week my son got into my husbands bottle of hormone pills. My hubby just started working out and he’s taking all this shit to lose weight and bulk up. He ran in from work to change and left the bottle on the table for 30 seconds while he ran upstairs and whatta know!!!? My son was chewing on one of the pills by the time he ran back downstairs. I was in the kitchen making dinner at the time so I didn’t realize what was going on. Anyways, I’ll try n cut it short, but of course we called the doc n poison control and would never let something like this happen again. The pill he took was harmless because my son doesn’t have hormones yet. Thank God!!! We always keep meds out of the childrens reach. I get so paranoid about that shit. Even giving meds to my own kids by choice makes me nervous. Moreover, my husband and I fought for a long time over it. How can he be so careless when he knows we have a toddler at home who gets into everything??? My hubbys a great dad and usually isn’t careless, but it just goes to show how easily something like this can happen. Ok- so I’m not talking about liquid heroin. That’s a little different, buuuuuttt- to not do anything about it afterwards is just ridiculous and very sad. On top of it they barely get a slap on the wrist for it? Wow. Poor little girl.
It wasn’t heroin or methadone, but that makes the point. I would bet actual money if had been something that inherently dangerous, your husband would never have left it unsupervised for a second. Most parents would treat something like that with a healthy level of concern.
Not our two superheroes in the news story, oh no, but MOST parents who love and worry about their children.
And then, if they’d made the mistake of a moment’s inattention, because they love their child more than they are trying to avoid trouble with the law, they would have called for help.
You’re a good parent. These two in the article should be fixed – and I don’t say that lightly. I grew up hearing my biomom tell me she’d been ordered by a judge to get fixed and that seemed like a terrible, bodily invasion and injustice to me. As an adult and a parent I can look at my biomom and the history there – my next youngest sister and I were taken from her as toddlers and hospitalized for frostbite and malnutrition, and a few years later she had two more children in worse shape removed from her care – and know regardless of the bodily surgical invasion, in very practical terms there is no way that woman should be having children.
and the same goes for these two assgerbils.
People don’t believe me, but I have an aunt that was sterilized without her consent right after the birth of her first and only child. She got it together eventually, but I remember my mom and grandma buying a weeks worth of groceries and going to auntie’s house to drop it off. They had keys and let themselves in. My aunt was nowhere to be found. My infant cousin was in her car seat on the dining room table. Alone.
Then some people have an irrational fear of “the law” and getting in trouble. It may seem random, but we’ve inherited a house. It has lots of problems and my husband and I PAID an inspector to come and check it out. My parents were freaking out. Telling me what a big mistake that was, complaining about the guy snooping around, thinking we were going to be hit with fines etc etc. Asbestos was found and…my parents wanted me to ignore it and move in anyway! Dad worked with it in the navy, he’s fine! My long-winded and disjointed story is just to show that my parents wanted me to live in a house with a pretty nasty and well-known carcinogen floating in the air with my BABY because they didn’t want “the man” involved. People are nuts.
Ugh. I remember my dumbass husband left a box of stuff from his car on the dining room table. I asked him to move it (because I just didn’t want it there). Well, the next day he went to run an errand and I didn’t realize that my little one had gone downstairs (his sister opened the gate while I was blow drying my hair). I came downstairs to see liquid everywhere. My first sight was a bottle of antifreeze and I freaked. I rushed him to the hospital while I had poison control on the line. Thank god that he hadn’t ingested it and the liquid on the floor was actually another cleaner (thank god that one wasn’t deadly like antifreeze!). The childproof container was still intact but it took 5 hours of waiting in an ER for the bloodwork to ensure that he was fine. I was terrified and shocked I had the wherewithal to drive. The Dr said that even a tad bit could have killed him. Scariest time of my life. My husband had left it on the table and was going to put it away when we returned from our trip. We are so extremely careful about these sort of things and all it took was one time to be careless…and I could have lost my precious son.
Speaking of “childproof” bottles…I can never open those damn bottles of childproof Tylenol. So is it childproof or foolproof?
Amanda the stripper wasn’t a credible witness because she’s a cokehead? Well, she seems to have more sense than those two, since she actually wanted the kid to go to the hospital. Also, I doubt any sober people could stand to be around those two morons. So Amanda was probably the best they could do.
She should have called 911, I’m sure she had a cell phone on her.
Stories keep coming up now and then where a friend, neighbor, aunt, etc saw something was wrong and wanted the parent to get the kid to a doctor. I just wish people would grab the kids and go say “fuck you, you stupid callous cunts” to the parents for once. Though if anyone is ever in the situation you might want to head directly to the ER. Last time I was at the doctor’s with my daughter for a sick visit a man came in with a maybe 10 year old girl and no one would see her until the girl’s mother called and gave them permission. He seemed like an uncle or something.
I hope that the “father” and the “mother” get fixed..(neutered, hysterectomy) with a dirty spork before leaving prison. To do us all a favor!! damn idiots!!
;c You can’t fix stupid. No further comment necessary.
Ugh. if they aren’t gonna burn for this, can we at least get some sort of a committee together to sterilize the both of em, so this will never happen again? =/
People like this should be spayed and neutered…. Most animals treattheir young better……
Yeah I can remember getting freaked out when my son had a glade plug-in in his mouth, and called poison control! I remember my daughter falling and cracking her head a good one off a coffee table. I called her pediatrician at home.
People like this in my mind should get one chance you dont do it right, you don’t have the right to do it again! I totally believe that these are the folks that should be getting the ol tubes cut, fried, and burned, and the old snipperoo for the men folk. so they cant do it again.
I also believe in capital punishment with these cases. An eye for an eye~
Lyn
My baby’s first bonk on the head came when she was like 5 weeks old. My husband sat her up in her crib because she had overfilled her diaper. He was holding her with one hand then when he pulled her onesie over her head just let go. I freaked the fuck out. She fell sideways and hit a crib bar. I took her in to the pediatrician to be looked at AFTER I had called and they gave me the baby bonked its head checklist (sleepier than normal, behavior change, vomiting, etc). She had none of that but I started getting obsessed she might have deep bruising or a fracture. My mom still thinks it’s funny that I took her in just for that. The woman that took me in for hiccups when I was a baby. Hilarious.
I don’t understand these people.
I remember the first time we rushed to the ER with our first baby. My hubby was carrying our daughter in her car seat and she was asleep (didn’t realized it though). And she freaked me out when it looked like her head caved in. I totally gave him hell thinking he must have dropped her or something. I tried to wake her up but she wouldn’t wake up! Her head just keeps falling back down. Like many first time parents, we panicked. He ran so many red lights and almost hit a cop. We didn’t get a ticket though! Anyways, turns out that it was normal. Nobody ever told us that the baby’s soft spot pulsating is normal. Totally normal, but freaky.
How on earth could 8 people vote no? I don’t get it.
As I always do when I vote no (and feel others who honestly, reasonably say no should), here’s why. Even though their stupidity is what caused the death of the child, I do not think that should send them to Hell. That is what prison is for. Just because the judge made the wrong choice in his sentencing, doesn’t damn them. They were stupid and made a terrible choice between what they wanted and what was best as a parent causing the death of their child. Anyway, that’s why I say no to Hell.
Hmm, you’re more than happy to send Randel Eudean Richardson to hell, but here you think that’s a punishment too far on the basis of Jonathan Hope and Lisa Guerin being too dumb to know any better.
I can’t say I agree with you there.
I mean I get it, there are different levels of culpability depending on one’s mental state when committing a crime. That’s what the insanity clause is for. But it doesn’t erase the cold hard fact that no matter what your state of mind, or your mental acuity, killing a child is ALWAYS WRONG. And stupidity is not a mitigating circumstance.
And aren’t you forgetting these two lightbulbs weren’t just stupid, but selfish and self-centered? And they were smart enough to realize that they could have made different choices. And the bitch, especially, is smart enough to turn on the sprinklers and claim she had no knowledge of what was going on once the shit hits the fan. Somehow that just feels a little bit too convenient to be the truth, but maybe that’s just me. And the whole sudden infant death syndrome also sounds like a cop-out.
Don’t get me wrong, I respect your decision to vote no, and your right to your own opinion. But in this case it might have been better to keep your explanation as to why to yourself, because it really doesn’t help me understand your choice in any way.
One final thing: if you honestly think this is some divine poll as to who gets to go to hell and who is exonerated, and that God (or whatever) actually reads our comments and makes his decisions based on our votes, you are totally missing the point of this website. The point of the vote is that it’s symbolic.
And in my symbolic opinion, every shitbag should burn.
Homer, I like the way your brain works. I would buy you a coffee if I could.
**Slurp** Aahh… Damn, this virtual coffee’s good. Thank you, Cleo… ;-)
You know, my first thought was: AT LEAST this baby did not suffer much, that is, compared to all the other horrible causes of child abuse and neglect on this site. Still, what a pair of STUPID and LAZY assholes! And only 2 1/2 years to that slut? The judge must have been a child-hater.
What a shame :( why couldn’t the Dad have od’d… it would have made more sence.
I was saddened by this story, but when I saw the picture of the little girl the tears started flowing. She looks exactly like my daughter did at that age, down to the red hair and the face shape.
Excuse me, I’m going to go give my daughter a hug. Good thing I can do that without her waking up.
I don’t get it. Why do people like this breed? Have an abortion, give the kid up for adoption. They are just incompetent, pathetic vermin.
I remember when my 2 year old took one of my amitriptyline by accident. She got my bottle out of my purse and being too smart for her own good could open the safety cap on the bottle. She only managed to get one into her, a low dose one at that, but it was enough for her dad and I to immediately react. It was a quick count of pills, “Oh shit!”, and mutual unspoken agreement that we were going to the ER. We were scared – for HER, not us or our failings as parents.
At worst the ER dr said she may have gotten drowsy (being it’s one of my sleep meds), but it didn’t even do that to her. She had to drink charcoal, stay under watch for a couple hours, then went home no worse for wear and with a new colouring book to boot.
Sure, the emergency room docs will still give you a chat about keeping meds way out of the reach of children, even preferably locked up high, but the mental and emotional ass-kicking I gave myself was far worse. These doctors understand that accidents do sometimes happen. And sure, many are preventable.
But at LEAST a decent parent would take their child in to the ER! Not give 5 (FIVE!) supposed hours of feeble CPR before trying to electrocute her.
People like Summer’s “parents” should be born sterile. Other people unable to have kids would have happily given her a long, safe, happy life with them.
I cannot say how I know this, but I have intimate knowledge of the parties involved. Lisa was involved with my cousin. Lisa Guerin has actually given birth to six children, with various partners, and all of them have been taken away by the government, she even had a child after Summer, the one that she killed, and that one was taken away in the delivery room. Someone needs to sterilize this chick, so she can’t screw up any more kids. For some reason, they weren’t allowed to disclose the information about her other kids at trial, and I think that would maybe have got her a harsher sentence if they took into account that she is a crappy mother.
Why am I not shocked to learn that Lisa Guerin is a freakin’ baby machine? I am relieved that none of her surviving children are subject to her mothering skills. Why doesn’t she ever learn how to NOT get pregnant? This bitch needs to be spayed.
OMG!!!!! i seriously almost cried readen that. dude, it kills me that people would sit there and be so f’in stupid with there kids like that.
Summer- im sorry your parents r complete a-holes and i cant fix that but at least your in a better place:)
Hey all, I talked to Max the Cat last week and he has been recovering from a very serious health problem and a lengthy stay in hospital. He thanks all for their kind thoughts and plans to return to the site soon.
What i can.t seem to wrap my head around is the dosage he was on, in england i work for a clinic helping people get off the drugs and medicating them. Now a usual dose is round about 60 to 100ml but thats a reduction programme we don.t maintain these people for the rest of their lives on Methadone, they are put on a programme of support and reduction. That idiot was on 260ml which is absolutely ridiculous. I’ve never heard of anyone taking more than a 140ml and that was considered high. What the fuck is he doing on a dosage that high, he probably didn.t go for help cos he would have been off his face, i.e zombied out, plus the clinic are also at fault as They should have checked his cup and made sure he’d drank the methadone and shouldn’t of even let him have a cup inside the facility. The mother is basically a fucking selfish twat. More interested in her next fuck rather than her daughter. She should have been given at least ten years as the stupid slack bastard father. Shame on both of you.