Dad, 36, charged with orchestrating a bawdy teen party

OK, here's a parenting test that most dads - maybe even Peter Griffin from "The Family Guy" - could probably pass:

When your 16-year-old son invites some of his high school buddies over for a get-together on a Friday night, do you . . .

A) Make sure that you stock up on beer, rum and vodka for the kids.

B) Lure some girls from the high school's cheerleading squad down to your basement - where you've conveniently placed a "stripper pole" - and encourage them to dance provocatively and kiss you on the face.

C) Do A and B, and get plenty of photos of the event so they can be posted on Facebook where teachers at the high school will eventually see them.

D) None of the above.

If you answered C), you are probably Steven Russo, 36, of Bethlehem Township, in the Lehigh Valley, and you have been charged with nine counts of endangering the welfare of children, eight counts of furnishing alcohol to minors and nine counts of corruption of minors.

According to court documents recently cited by the Easton Express-Times:

Teens said Russo's home was well-known as a place for teens to hang out and drink alcohol.

But the parties apparently didn't gain local notoriety - or police attention - until the night of Dec. 12, when Russo's son, now 17 and a student at Freedom High School, invited over at least eight of his friends, some as young as 14.

The father not only served booze to his underage guests but also regaled them with stories of his own sexual exploits, police said. He eventually moved the party down to his basement, home of the now-infamous stripper pole, where he played loud music and allegedly shouted "Get on the pole" at young girls in their cheerleader outfits.

Although some of the teens claimed to police that Russo also has a room for sexual activity on the house's second floor called "the cave," he is not accused of sexual misconduct. However, besides the photo of two of the teenaged girls kissing him on the face, court documents say Russo encouraged one 16-year-old to remove her shirt.

It's not that Russo didn't have rules, according to the documents. He demanded that kids who drank alcohol sleep over to avoid getting into trouble, police said, although one 14-year-old girl told them that she sneaked out after getting sick on vodka and Red Bull.

Still, what happened in the Russo household might have stayed in the Russo household had pictures of the Bacchanalian blast not been placed on Facebook, a social-networking site.

There, according to the Express-Times, the pictures became the topic of "sniping" among the cheerleaders at Freedom High and finally came to the attention of the cheerleading coach and another teacher, who called the cops.

Russo is free on $2,500 bail, but this isn't the only entry for his Father of the Year application. He reportedly also faces charges for stalking his son's mother back in October. And a couple of girls at the Dec. 12 party told police that Russo's 4-year-old son was largely unattended upstairs, even after he wet his bed. *

The Associated Press contributed to this report.