27°Woman sent to prison for blowing probation
10:28 PM
Aug 29
2010
Aug 29
2010
A woman who violated her probation was sentenced to more than two years in prison.
Rachelle V. Holmes, 27, of Cleveland, admitted last Monday to violating the terms of her community control sanctions due to a positive drug screen. Her probation officer said the defendant admitting to using heroin.
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05:40 PM
Sassy says
If this person 'didn't know' that heroin was addictive, then, WOW, she must have been living in a box with no access to the media, newspapers, the outside world, ANYTHING for her ENTIRE life. What a sad, pathetic way to grow up. It's an absolute miracle she has been able to assimilate into society. Yup, that was sarcasm. What a pathetic excuse for a person. Anyone foolish enough to believe she 'didn't know' is an enabler, and a sorry excuse themselves. She didn't know. Sure.05:11 AM
BaileyOriginally says
Well it's all about making excuses. Addicts are not accountable, they blame others, and there are a million excuses as to "why this didn't happen", etc.. And unfortunately, a lot of times, when they finally do own up to their own behavior, it's only for attention, and once they get that, they're right back to their old ways.05:16 PM
BLADES says
Who cares if they were gateway drugs, if she never did drugs before, if she is a all time f*ck up, or just a first time jack ass, she made a choice and those always come with conciqences and look shes paying a hefty price for it!!! Congrats you fu*ked up now go learn from your mistake and stop having everyone on here try to explain your situation cause nobody really gives a shit if you mess with heroin you might as well just shoot an air bubble into your arm and kill yourself faster so we dont have to hear or see about you being another statistic I have no pitty or pain for heroin addicts or any major controlled substance users cause all your worried about is your next fix no matter who you hurt and destroy to get it come rob me break into my house betcha ass you wont be walking back out the door the same way you came in it!!!!11:56 AM
blah blah blah says
Just another child caught up in the mother/fathers mess/situation! If they know they can't take care of themselfs then why have kids? O ya so the state can support the mother/father with medical and foodstamps! So that the parents can get high and stoned up all day and don't have to worrry bout anything else but that!!! WOW what a way 2 live!!! NOT!!!!! Ya that's what we all work for...Hey DON'T get me wrong the child is the victem here and has 2 pay for there parent's mistakes!!! MAKES ME SICK!!!!!!!!12:41 PM
HolmesSPH says
blah blah blah, pretty easy to judge isn't it? Not everything is as it appears, get off your high horse. Katie, (the child in reference) has a great father, which now has custody of her. He works his butt off and has put up with my sister's crap for almost a decade. Call it love, call it foolishness, call it what ever you want, he's supported her and Katie ever since they got together. It's ashamed such a great guy got stuck into a situation like he is in. My sister was told she'd never, ever conceive.. ever.. The child was a result making a DUMB decision to still have sex unprotected, and trusting her diagnosis from years past. Katie is not supported by the state, he has never, and never will collect foodstamps, medical or anything else for Katie. He pays for insurance, works hard and has tried his best to help Rachelle stay clean. However, this will not be easy on Katie, having your mother gone for two years of your childhood, there will be a lot of questions, a lot of quality time missed, and it's not the ideal situation. blah blah blah, perhaps you should withhold your harsh assumptions and judgments before posting ridiculous comments in public.10:41 PM
HolmesSPH says
letmepicyou - yes actually Rachelle's Heroin addiction was the result of getting into drugs via "gateway drugs" and then unfortunately looking for an ever more increasing way to mask/cope with life. She has many times made the comment to me that she was addicted the first time she did heroin, and if she had knew that were possible she would have never tried it. Her decisions are her decisions, they were poor and she could have chosen to handle her life differently, however, "gateway" drugs exist and ARE harmful, and this is coming from the 2nd youngest of 8, of which 4 became addicts. Lastly, as much as I appreciate D.A.R.E. as a program and remember the years going through it, I think we need to move to a more in-your-face curriculum. After watching almost 9 years of addiction with Rachelle alone, and the affects of drugs, I can't recall a single piece of the D.A.R.E. program that really addresses the gruesomeness of drug addiction, to many kids graduate from D.A.R.E. and think it's a just a joke. We need serious Drug prevention programs in Norwalk, and a lot more information put into these kids from a young age.07:59 AM
A.W.U says
Bull, using weed as scapgoat for weakness, I have never touched a chemical. and I smoked weed in my youth!12:30 PM
HolmesSPH says
AWU, weed is not a scapegoat... People like you need to get it into your head that while many people are like you and do it for recreational use, there's a whole other percentage that utilizes it as a coping mechanism... And unfortunately in those situations it usually leads to experimenting with other drugs in an attempt to mask their pain/issues/weaknesses; what ever you want to call it. You can dumb it down all you want, but you can talk to anyone who has been around serious addictions their entire life, or any drug counselor, and they'll likely agree. Now I'm not denying "weakness", of course there is a weakness there, there is a void she's filling heck yes.. No one is saying that weed MADE HER do other drugs, and you assuming that's what I'm getting is pretty assumptive considering how explicit my last message was.01:18 PM
letmepicyou says
I wonder if those traditional "Gateway Drugs" led her to heroin. Gateway drugs like nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine. Bet you thought I'd say something else.02:26 PM
Sassy says
LMAO!!!08:45 PM
starryeyes83 says
This birther is no mother, just another birther the rest of us are paying for.05:09 PM
AlterEgo says
D@mn sassy, now I wanna be probation....04:54 PM
E.Cartman says
lol @ Sassy! Usually that gets a girl out of trouble.03:40 PM
Sassy says
Well, at least probation was happy afterwards...01:46 PM
steadyguy says
This is Norwalk news because it happened here.12:03 PM
All taken says
And this is Norwalk news why?? We have enough heroin around here we don't need to know all about Cleveland.05:56 AM
HolmesSPH says
Rachelle has a 4 year old daughter who's going to have to go through a lot of questions about life right now without a mother figure, it's sad when little ones are in the middle of things have no control of, her name is Kaitlyn and she's a beautiful little girl.05:26 AM
BaileyOriginally says
GREAT headline if she were accused of prostitution!