A judge then ruled that the boy could be released from foster care and into his mother’s custody so long as Ratte moved out of the house. County officials put the boy into a foster home for three days, even though the case agents didn’t feel it was the right thing to do, because they had to follow procedure. Many of the officers hated the fact they had to do it, but rules are rules. According to procedure, the police were required to turn the child over to the county’s child protective services. The doctors at the ER found no trace of alcohol in his system and were ready to release the boy to his father.īut the police had other plans. The medical clinic called an ambulance, and the boy was sent to an emergency room. When a security guard saw Ratte’s son nursing the bottle of the spiked beverage, he immediately took it from him and then rushed the boy to the stadium’s medical clinic. When Ratte went to the concession stand, he grabbed a beer for himself and a Mike’s Hard Lemonade for his son, unaware that it was an alcoholic beverage. In 2008, Christopher Ratte and his seven-year-old son were attending a Detroit Tigers game together. This article was originally published in December 2011. With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past.
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