Pair Liquors Up Girls During Sleepover

(Lexington County, South Carolina) An Irmo couple, Stephanie Kae Cassel, 35, and James Wesley Lewis, 28, surrendered to authorities to face charges related to allegedly liquoring up four 11-year-old girls during a sleepover. The mother of one of the girls reported the incident to police.

The four girls reportedly drank enough to lose consciousness and become physically ill.

Arrest warrants allege that the girls were encouraged to drink "a gross amount of Bacardi rum, Absolut vodka, Bahama Mama and other liquors for two hours, starting at 10:00pm, during the sleepover party at the Irmo home," according to Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts.

Lewis provided the liquor to the four girls before he and Cassel went to a bedroom to go to sleep, Metts said. Lewis exited the bedroom several times to ensure that the girls were drinking the liquors that he had provided to them. Lewis also briefly drank liquor with the girls.

One of the girls became physically ill several times overnight because she had consumed too much liquor, Metts said. Cassel, who works as an emergency medical technician for a private ambulance service, and Lewis provided no assistance to the girls when the girls became physically ill because they had consumed too much liquor.

Cassel and Lewis were booked into custody at the Lexington County Detention Center and later released on bail.