Hingham Area Residents Sound Off on Facebook About Recent Teen Party

A Hingham dad could be punished after last Saturday’s Hingham house party and many area residents have an opinion on it.

Patch asked the question, “Do you think this East Street homeowner should face jail time, a fine, both or neither?” and many Facebook fans responded with the following:  

Paula Mine: A serious fine would be nice, and he should be shunned by the community.

Mitch Paine:Fine, and community service.

Christina Varrasso: Absolutely! unfortunately there hasn't been sufficient penalties and parents continue to host these events.

Barbara Mulcahy : make him chug 20 beers

Christopher Sadler : Jail Time, set a precedent. No room in society for this.

Christine Flynn: Maybe all of you(considering you're all adults) should all focus on your own lives instead of spending time on facebook publicly shitting on someone's parent. Let them deal with this on their own or discuss it at a tea party in private with some close friends, because there's definitely no need for people on facebook talking about a community shunning.

Nate Wallace: If this was the first occasion of this happening in Hingham, I'd agree with you Christine, but this guy doesn't deserve to handle this privately. We all know this stuff goes on in Hingham, and in other towns in our area, mainly because people are under the impression that they are untouchable and can get away with it because they are the "social elite". We should look at this as a wake up call, and make it public! Keeping it quiet will only continue this type of behavior. The cops can only do so much, but the real issue is parents whose defeatist attitudes teach kids that getting hammered in high school is fine. If parents see that actual consequences come from this, maybe less parties will be thrown, maybe less kids will get drunk, and maybe less teenagers will make the decision to get behind a wheel drunk. There's a lot of maybes there, but to some parents who have lost children, I'd say its worth it.

Cris Rossi: Maybe being embarrassed will be a wake up call to this guy. What an idiot.

Paula Mine: I'm not sorry. If this was my neighbor, I wouldn't be talking to them any more. What if one of those kids died? Would it then be appropriate to not talk to them? Its a free country and I'm free to ignore anyone I want. Maybe if people stopped accepting this kind of behavior, it would change. Because I'm pretty sure these people will not get any serious penalties... It takes a village doesn't it?

Mindy Heller Holmes : How many kids have to die driving home wasted from "safe" house parties before something is done to end them? Everyone who has graduated from HHS knows at least one kid who was killed driving home from a party. This is not OK.

Laura Eide: Parents who act like teens should be disciplined, fined, lectured and shamed into becoming responsible ADULTS. Instead of being complicit misbehaved buddies to the kids, parents need to grow up and do what's in the best interest of their charges. When laws have to step in to protect kids from themselves and their own parents, we have lost our way. I don't think jail is appropriate.

Amanda Beachus: As the parent of teens I am very scared, you can lose everything you have with these incidents. I would never host a teenage drinking party, what worries me is when the teens sneak or steal your alcohol and you can still get charged.

Sue Gentile: You need to be a parent first and your kids "friend" second. Must say that I agree with you Nate.