A woman who admitted smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for completing his homework was sentenced to three months in prison.

Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, was also ordered Tuesday to spend nine months on house arrest and a year on probation.

Livelsberger pleaded guilty on Sept. 11 to three misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors as well as drug-possession and paraphernalia-possession charges. She admitted that she had been smoking marijuana with her son since he was 11 and often gave him the drug as a reward.

The boy told police that he was required to do his homework as soon as he got home from school, and then was allowed to smoke pot with his mother, according to court documents. The woman also said she smoked marijuana with two of her son’s friends, ages 17 and 18.

Police searched the home April 29 and said they seized small amounts of marijuana, two cocaine straws, and 31 new small glass pipes and bowls as well as other drug paraphernalia. Investigators said the woman told them that she had bought the new pipes to resell them.

What about his similar aged friends…?

Joke Alan Parkin put the willies up his neighbours - with this naughty 10ft Christmas tree.

Not content with adding just a couple of baubles, Alan, 47, decorated the fir with red and white fairy lights outside his home in aptly named Penistone.

But his jolly green giant didn’t exactly excite fellow residents and they complained to police. Proof, perhaps, that size isn’t everything.

One said: “It’s rather rude. There are children and teenagers about and I don’t think it’s good for them to see.” Another fumed: “It’s just obscene. We shouldn’t have to put up with it.”

Although officers who visited his South Yorkshire home merely asked him to remove the lights, the jobless prankster has agreed to go all the way - and give the tree the snip.

Married Alan said: “It was just a laugh. If it offended anybody, then the shape will be altered.

“I was amazed when police called around. They said they had received a complaint and would I mind removing the lights so it didn’t look offensive.”

But not all neighbours were outraged. Constance Barnard, a widow in her 60s, said: “It doesn’t bother me.

“I didn’t know we had anyone around here so pious as to complain to police. I’m a churchgoer but I don’t think about it. I’m a live-and-let-live lady.”

Mind you, even she wasn’t that impressed with Alan’s idea of a Christmas lunchbox. Constance said: “It looks more like a mushroom.”

Well it’s good that people are getting into the Christmas spirit!

A man who sang gospels while he sexually assaulted and beat a woman and then left her for dead in a trash bin in St. Louis was sentenced Friday to two life sentences plus 200 years in prison.

Gus Grady Jr., 52, who was once declared a criminal sexual psychopath, was convicted in September of beating the 33-year-old woman with a Club anti-theft device and sodomizing her before putting a plastic bag over her head and choking her.

The woman, a stranger he had grabbed as she walked along the 2600 block of Pestalozzi Street, survived.

“This is one of the most violent and perverse acts that has come before me in my tenure,” said Judge Mark H. Neill. “Whatever demons are upon you, they are still persistent.”

Grady, who served 26 years for rape and kidnapping in Boone County, had been released from prison only a year before the 2004 attack here.

“It is my hope that you are not released from the Department of Corrections,” the judge said. “I want to protect society.”

Neill ordered that Grady serve the terms consecutively.

Prosecutor Mary Pat Benninger said Grady had a long history of sexual offenses, dating back to when he was a juvenile.

In January 1974, he was committed to the state mental hospital in Fulton, Mo., as a criminal sexual psychopath.

“The state believes he’s a monster beyond help,” Benninger told the judge.

Jurors convicted him of forcible sodomy, armed criminal action and two charges of first-degree assault. The victim said Grady was singing along with gospel songs playing on the radio of the minivan he was using. Grady left her in a trash container in the 2100 block of Russell Boulevard.

Wow, this crazy fool spent 26 years in prison. That’s half his entire life. Did the system think this guy had rehabilitated? Hmm.

This article also reminds of a video I came across the other day. In a nutshell, a serial rapist was jailed and filmed getting beheaded by fellow prisoners; who then proceeded to play football with his head. I’d love to post this video on my site, but I don’t think a large majority of my visitors will approve. Regardless, I don’t want to turn this site into a shock-site either…