The couple from Wyoming thought they’d “teach their son a lesson” by forcing him to drink alcohol and making him sick.

Now, we’ve all heard stories of parents making their kids eat cigarettes to get them to never smoke again, but giving a teenager alcohol poisoning on purpose is next level.

According to them, 16 year-old Kendal Ball told his mom and stepfather that he wants to drink, and this went on for about three years. The mother told police that Kendal’s biological father was an alcoholic and she didn’t want the same thing to happen to her son.

So, to show his the effects of alcohol, the couple forced him to drink “ a few shots of fireball, a few shots of Jack Daniel’s and some beer” before sending him to bed. When the stepfather checked on him at around 3:45 am in the morning his “lips and eyeballs were dark blue” and dark fluid was coming out of his mouth.

Kendal died due to “complications of acute alcohol poisoning” with a blood alcohol level of .587.

Both parents were charged with involuntary manslaughter and get up to 20 years behind bars.

Via New York Daily News / Elite Daily

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