NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A mother faces criminal charges after she hired a stripper to dance at her 16-year-old son's birthday party. Anette Pharris, 34, has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and involving a minor in obscene acts. The boy's father, the stripper and two others also face charges.

"I tried to do something special for my son," Pharris said. "It didn't harm him."

About 10 people under the age of 18 were at the birthday party in September, including minors who were not related to the family, authorities said.

Police spokesman Don Aaron said minors are not permitted in adult establishments.

"A person shouldn't be allowed to circumvent that law by hiring a stripper, a lady who took all her clothes off and spent a good amount of time dancing around minors," he said.

Anette Pharris took photos at the party and tried to have them developed at a nearby drug store. Drug store employees notified authorities, police said.

"Who are they to tell me what I can and can't show to my own children?" the mother said.
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OMG!!! I wish my mom was like that

Now there's a law that isn't enforced nearly enough.

That is a cool mom? I don't think that exposing your minor child(and minor friends) to strippers(the report I read said that it went further than just stripping) is not cool.

I don't know how much crack she was on, but it is such a huge screwup that I think that jailtime is in order.

wow...she could've at least waited a couple of years before doing that...even doing it at all just seems too bizarre for a mom to do...a dad maybe, but a mom?>

Indeed, a good mother should not be encouraging such practices let alone providing it for her son and his friends when they are still quite young.

16 really isn't being a "kid" anymore. It is almost grown up but not there. Yeah, jail time she will get but the judge should take in the fact that the kid is 16. Now, if the boy was lets say 9, then she would be up crap creek hardcore.

She should have waited till his 18th.

It was in pretty poor taste when the women stripped completely off and other kids were also involved.
I can sort of understand if she had stripped to a bikini only, teenage boys and a nice figure but yeah what sort of mum would organise that.

sounds like someone failed parenting class big time! lol that mom must a moron!

the western world is just too anal about sexuality!

sheesh... he saw a naked woman....

Good point..

I started a thread on this story yesterday and the mods erased it from the forums. that was odd!

Anyway I said nudity is overrated, and those employees should mind thier own business.

The only objection I had was the friends of the boys parents aware of the stripper?

No one is wondering what trouble the stripper got in?

You could argue that there is a big difference between seeing a naked body and seeing a naked stripper.

How sad that the mother feels she has to buy her son's affection with gifts of sexual favors. Problem with some parents being their kid's FRIENDS instead of their parents.

I'll bet a million that the other kids' parents did NOT know she was getting a stripper -- what healthy 16 yr old boy would tell his mom & dad "Gee, I don't think I should go to Billy's party. His Mom's hiring a stripper and I just don't feel comfortable with that."

16 is still a child. Just because a 16 year old gets to cross the road by himself and stay out late with his friends does not mean otherwise. There is a reason certain video games, movies, activities etc are restricted to 16 year olds and anyone under 18 for that matter, and it is not because adults feel like being unfair.

The law is there for a reason and I for one a, glad that in this instance, the law was enforced.

ur correct! deeply agree!

The problem is burnside, is that adults like to make the age of adulthood flexible. For example, the government is happy to say 'pay adult fees when you are 16 for transport', and so are any other customer or lesuire services. However when it comes to down to clubs/pubs, it is 18 or 21...

However, I think that you are really only an adult at 25-30.

I think it was ok for her to do that, I guess its just where you live that you look at it differently. I live in Georgia and at the age of 17 you can leave from up under your parents as long as you can take care of yourself, also a parent can give thier children (minors) Alcoholic beverages as long as they keep the minors there at home and not to let them go anywhere by themselves, but then again the child has to be atleast 16 so I really don't see where she was doing wrong, come on, do we really want our children going off and doing this be themselves where they may get themselves into trouble? Also they are learning about this stuff in school at the age of 10 now. And I feel like if you are being the best parent you can be then you would have already talked about sex with them by that time (16yrs)

a stripper does not mean that they were going to have sex.....

for the males that are here, have you had a stripper? they strip, they don't have sex unless you get this girl that is just plain trashy like that but then you have a whore not a stripper.

if my son asks for a stripper on his 16 birthday then I would get him one or take him to a strip club...

sex is a totally different thing, if there was more then stripping the i guess something should be done, and for the them having other children there then no i don't agree, the story i got was that a mother hired a stripper for her son, not her son and friends...

that mom must be messed in the head...

I agree with some of the posters. A 16 year old is a man under most respects. Heck 16 year olds were being shipped in by the ton to the fronts in World Wars I and II, illegally yes, but it was known and nobody did anything or much at best about it. When I was 16 I went to Holland with my parents and we walked around the Red Light District (Softcore section, some nudity) and in all fairness it didn't faze me one bit. Strippers, prostitution, etc are the oldest prefessions in the world, and a reality. The problem is trying to shelter children from these realities. From the article you can't even tell if the kid asked for the stripper.

The only flaw I can see in the whole argument is the fact that some of the kids were not her children and as a consequence it might have been ill advised to bring in a stripper without their parent's consent. Otherwise, what went wrong?

She should have said it was "art"!

That is one very cool mom

That guy is one lucky sucker! Why doesn't my mother hire a striper with a DD cup to my next anniversary? That would be something to look at! I think that all my friends would come!!

Whoa thats the coolest mom ever , I wish my mom was like that.
I don't think that she should have gotten in trouble for that, unless if there was more than just stripping going on, however i think she should have told the other kids parents. By age 16 we should be able to see a stripper, i bet most people have seen nudity by age 12. In Canada by age 15 your already allowed to engage in sex, as long as its with someone within 1-2 years of your age, and in Denmark by 15 you can legally by that kind of material. And nudity isn't that bad, I think it would be worse to expose your child to all the violence and evil in this world.

I hope they don't give her jail time, as not to discourage other moms from doing the same thing.

The stripper's name was Art? Well, now that opens up a whole new can of worms......j/k

Seriously, I think this woman used poor judgement by getting her kid, yes I said kid, a stripper for his party. It sounds like she was attempting to put on her "cool mom" hat and now might be deemed unfit to raise children. Very sad.

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We don't need to hear about underagers and their sexual conquests, so keep comments like that to yourself in the future please.

There are some valid points to this discussion.

I would like to see more effort put into ending child marriages, slavery, and other abuses in America. With those issues in the US, the stripper incident is almost a joke.

can someone please tell me how her son was harmed by seeing a stripper? i mean, its not that he has never seen a playboy. come on, people!

Bail her outta jail... she is one cool mom. wished my mom would have done that.
afterall, ain't nothing those kids seen there that they could not find on the internet
to the cops: go catch a druggie and dealer, leave mom and the boys alone!

I'd have to agree with the guys for the mother. There are worse things going on in this country than a mother getting a stripper for a minor.

If it was more than stripping however, THEN we have a problem.

We have murders, raipists, and so many others going around that have never faced trial, or even been arrested running around!! Have the police going after these guys instead!!

Perhaps the Police are weak in this day and age, Since they cant get the serial killers and rapists, they have to go after things they know they can get a person arrested for. A sad, but moral truth. I've gotten by the principal in trouble for pushing a person , but i've seen people pick a person up by their shirt and slamming them against a locker, and not got in trouble at all.

Who cares? At 16, kids are already having sex.

Besides, age limits are already screwed up. At 18 you can go to war and give up your life, but you can't drink until you're 21! Come on. After all, getting shot is better than getting drunk.

My post got erased. The gremlins are at it again.

Might have been for a good reason

I wonder how looking at a naked person I considered "bad". I mean, the human body is a beautiful thing.

Like good artwork.

Then you guys have obviously not seen me in real life.

Abstract art is still good. Some of us just have more dimension to ourselves then others. lol. We all our beautiful. It just needs to be appreciated by others.

Regardless if he's having sex yet or not it is that mother's responsibility to teach him that women should not be considered inanimate objects. Doing something like that just puts in his mind that women are only good for one thing. That is to sexual amuse and stimulate men. Do you think something like that will teach him to respect women? I think not. And how sick does a woman have to be to think that a gist involving anything sexual would be good for her 16 year old son. Ewwwww..I have a son and I don't even ever want to think of him having sex or thinking about it.

But Dr he is sooner or later. It is just a thing that must happen. This is why sex education is a must. But I don't condone hiring a stripper by no means.

That is pretty sexist towards guys. Surely we can tell the difference and understand. That women is probably doing pretty well for her self for amusing guys for a little bit. Just because he saw some tits doesn't mean he will grow up being disrespectful towards women, just as teaching a kid to shoot wouldn't make him grow up to be a murder.

Personally I think strippers are rather good for female empowerment. Think about it.

These women have guys pay the a good portion of there money, and in return they get to see something I have seen online for free. Whose the one holding all the cards here?

And before anyone asks, NO I do not think women are objects. In truth I support equal rights for all. Although I think feminazis are just plain crazy.

The son probably appreciated it... he's a horney 16 year old.... what do you expect...... maybe she felt sorry for him because he never gets some......

Personally, if I was a parent, I wouldn't care, but I couldn't speak for everyone. That is the only problem I could see, is whether other parents would care.

OK, thats a little odd.