Apr 6, 2009 7:56 pm US/Eastern
Nanny Arrested After L.I. Teen Drinking Incident
Nassau County's Social Host Law Enforced After 14-Year-Old Is Hospitalized Following Binge At Upscale Home
ROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y. (CBS) ―
On Long Island a teenage drinking party ended with a 14-year-old boy hospitalized and a nanny facing charges of violating Nassau County's social host law.
The teen is a student at the prestigious Wheatley School of East Williston on Long Island. His worried classmates described how their friend collapsed on the driveway of a Roslyn Heights home during an underage drinking party over the weekend.
"Our school is very small, so once something happens we all know about it," classmate Ryan Miller said. "Everyone is just really concerned and worried about him. He's a big kid and I heard he didn't really drink that much."
According to police, about 20 young teens showed up at their friend's home on Shepherd Lane, because they knew his parents were away. But the au pair was home and in charge. And according to police, the live-in nanny with a Jamaican passport, 30-year-old Andrean Newland, did nothing to stop the illegal drinking.
"It appears that a party went on where alcoholic beverages were plentiful," Nassau County Police Det. Lt. Kevin Smith said. "And one of the children – a 14-year-old – over-drank to the point where he became unconscious, perhaps could have expired to the amount of drinking that took place."
As the unconscious 14-year-old was rushed to Winthrop Hospital, police arrested the au pair and charged her with violating Nassau County's well-publicized social host law.
"If you are in charge of children you have to be responsible," one parent said.
Added another: "It's amazing; It's disgusting. It just shouldn't happen."
"I think it's the responsibility of actually both – the parents and the nanny," a woman said.
Breaking the social host law is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine for the first offense. The nanny will face a judge next week.
So far 23 people have been charged since the social host law was passed.
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