mother gets 25yrs for injecting a minor

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<TD>Indy Star
5 August 2005

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.d...EWS01/508050492


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<TD =xq>Mom gets 25 years in cocaine case
Woman also gets 10 years' probation for injecting a teen visitor with the drug.

By Paul Bird
paul.bird@indystar.com


A Shelbyville mother of three young children was sentenced to 25 years in prison for her role in injecting a teenage boy with cocaine.

Shanna L. Holwager received the sentence Friday from Shelby Superior Court Judge Jack Tandy.

Tandy initially sentenced Holwager to 35 years on a charge of dealing cocaine but suspended 10 years in favor of probation.

The probe began March 4 when Holwager was hospitalized after injecting cocaine and overdosing.

After she was released from the hospital, Emily Perry, an investigator for Shelby County Office of Family and Children, and Shelbyville Police Officer Bob Cook checked on the children during a walk-through of the house with Holwager.

Investigators said they found cocaine, marijuana, hypodermic needles and other paraphernalia at several locations.

Police Detective Robert Brinkman Jr. was summoned.

"Brinkman's investigation revealed that Holwager had injected the juvenile with cocaine on the same evening when Holwager had overdosed," said Chief Deputy Prosecutor Brad Landwerlen.

"Holwager and the boy said that the teenager had never tried cocaine and wondered what it would be like. So, Holwager injected him with cocaine three times that night."

The 17-year-old was a visitor. The dealing charge stemmed from injecting him.

"Under Indiana law, a person deals a drug when he or she delivers it to another, and injecting a juvenile with cocaine is the most offensive delivery of drugs I've seen," Landwerlen said. "She knew that she was introducing the juvenile for the first time to a lifestyle that leads either to jail, if he's lucky, or a coffin, if he's not."

Landwerlen commended Brinkman for the investigation.

"Had Brinkman not conducted such a thorough investigation, we would have never know that Holwager had been injecting any juvenile with cocaine, as we had received no reports of this activity."

County Prosecutor R. Kent Apsley applauded the sentence.

"Our office is particularly strict in cases involving drugs and kids," he said.

Apsley said the sentence sends a message to the community and could prevent at least one child from being introduced at such a young age to a "doper lifestyle" and addiction.

Holwager's three children, ranging in age from 2 to 6, are under state supervision</TD></TR></T></TABLE></TD></TR></T></TABLE></TD></TR></T></TABLE></TD></TR></T></TABLE></TD></TR></T></TABLE>