Iowa teenager assaults mother; Cops find father juiced up the son for 'motivation'
An Iowa teenager who attracted police attention when he went off on his mother, was given anabolic steroids by his father for 'motivation'. Giving a teenage son anabolic steroid pills and injections goes a bit beyond 'motivation; more like 'felony'.
Black Hawk County sheriff’s deputies arrested Todd Anthony Gerleman, 44, Friday morning at the jail for distributing a controlled substance to a minor.
Investigators became interested in Gerleman in November 2008 after they were called to an assault that involved his 14-year-old son, according to records.
The boy had assaulted his mother at her Gilbertville home Nov. 19, and officers who responded found a syringe and 105 pills in the boy’s bedroom, court records state.
The teen told authorities his father gave him the pills during an earlier weekend visitation, records state.
The father “admitted to bringing the needle and pills from his residence ... and supplying them to ‘motivate’ his son about sports,” according to court records.
A test by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation determined the pills were methandrostenolone, which is an anabolic steroid, according to court records.
Gilbertville is a hotbed of high school wrestling. Several D-1 wrestlers started their careers at Don Bosco High School in the small Iowa town. Hopefully they were clean.
The Iowa court records show sports a long minor legal history. This charge of felony distributing substances to a minor is found here. Looks like dad is out on 500.00 bail.
The first father convicted of supplying steroids and HGH to his son a champion inline skater occurred in a famous Florida case:
The walls of a federal prison serve as a constant reminder of his crimes for Jim Gahan, a former Grandville man believed to be the first parent convicted for providing steroids to his own child.
"I probably walk 20 miles a day here pacing," Gahan told ABC News reporters for a segment that aired on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. "And I do 500 pushups and 1,000 sit-ups every day to burn myself out so that at night I can sleep.
"Because I understand the hurt I caused my family."...
Corey, a former in-line skater, and his mother and father, were part of a Sports Illustrated story and investigation into steroid abuse earlier this month. Gahan, a former Grandville businessman who moved his son to Florida for elite training as a skater five years ago, was sentenced to federal prison in Florida in early January.
Corey, now 18 and living and working in Grandville, was injected with steroids by his father for at least two years starting at age 13. Gahan, who shared custody of Corey in a divorce, started his son on a regimen of vitamins, human growth hormone and steroids after moving to Florida.
what a horrendous excuse for a human.
Posted by: sal m | 01/13/2009 at 16:48
With a name like Girlieman you can understand why he might try to toughen up his son.
Posted by: Steve | 01/14/2009 at 07:17
There isn't a good enough word to describe this guy.
Posted by: Drew | 01/14/2009 at 09:11
I felt that the comment about the wrestling and Don Bosco High School was way out of line. Don Bosco is a small Catholic high school, the kids in town that are not catholic attend a public high school in Waterloo. This young man doesn't even attend Don Bosco or participate in any sports at the school, he attends the public school in Waterloo.
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