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Mom Ticketed For Letting Toddler Smoke

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Mom Ticketed For Letting Toddler Smoke

By Lauren Leamanczyk

GREENFIELD - A mom has been ticketed for letting her 2-year-old son smoke. According to a police report, customers and staff at the Ponderosa restaurant on S. 76th Street in Greenfield saw the woman and her aunt give the child a cigarette. Corinna Kuhnke says her son was not in danger. "I had a pack of cigarettes on the table at a restaurant and the kid picked up a pack of cigarettes. He picked up the pack of cigarettes and pulled it out," she said. She denies that her aunt lit the cigarette, saying instead, "she lit a lighter but she didn't light the cigarette." Other witnesses say the cigarette was in the boy's mouth and it was smoking. According to police, Kuhnke's aunt says Kuhnke bragged to her that her son can "even light his own cigarette." Not true, says the mother. She says she's not to blame. "I wasn't at the table when it happened, for one, and the kid's two years old. A lot of two year old kids know how to do a lot of things," she told Lauren Leamanczyk. Other disturbing details in the report include a family member telling police that Kuhnke keeps a rolled up dollar bill in her bedroom. When the boy sees a bill, he says "fix, fix." The women are not being criminally charged. They have been cited for Providing Tobacco to Underage Persons.