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03-06-2007, 12:27 PM
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Teens Charged With Teaching Tots To Toke
Tape Shows 2-Year-Old, 5-Year-Old Getting Lesson In Smoking What Appears To Be Marijuana
WATAUGA, Texas, March 5, 2007
(CBS/AP) Two teenagers were arrested after police found a video of them showing two children, including one just two years old, how to smoke marijuana, authorities said.
Fort Worth Police found the video Feb. 22 while investigating Demetris McCoy, 17, and Vanswan Polty, 18, in connection with some burglaries.
In the video, the children are called "potheads" and a man can be seen placing what appears to be a marijuana cigarette into a baby's mouth. In another part of the video a boy is seen smoking on his own. The children were also asked if they "have the munchies."
"It is unbelievable," Bruce Ure of the Watauga Department of Public Safety told the Dallas Morning News. "You can hear one of them say, 'Let's get high.' And they're just encouraging them to keep puffing on it."
Police said the boys are McCoy's nephews, aged 2 and 5. The children have been placed in foster care, the child protective services said.
Both men have been arrested on felony charges of injury to a child and were being held in jail Sunday. It was not immediately known if the two men had attorneys.
"The 2-year-old is puffing away and obviously inhaling. He's coughing like he's got a smoker's cough," Ure told the newspaper. "The 2-year-old is stumbling. He's giggling. He's falling down. He's debilitated. Our suspects are just laughing uncontrollably. They think this is the funniest thing they ever saw."
Shirley Russell, McCoy's grandmother, told KXAS-TV that she was working when the video was made.
"I'm very upset about it. I didn't raise them like that and they know I didn't raise them like that," Russell said. "I feel terrible about it, it's outrageous, all the things that went on and I didn't know nothing about them."
Asked for comment by KXAS-TV as he was being led into jail, McCoy responded with expletives.
A telephone listing found for a Vanswan Polty in the Fort Worth-area was not in service. A telephone listing for McCoy could not be immediately found.
The video is on this link as well. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/05/national/main2535164.shtml
Whether you smoke pot or not. That is your choice good or bad. But to have a family member/relative give two toddlers, 2 and 5 years of age, pot to smoke, it is disgusting.
Teens Charged With Teaching Tots To Toke
Tape Shows 2-Year-Old, 5-Year-Old Getting Lesson In Smoking What Appears To Be Marijuana
WATAUGA, Texas, March 5, 2007
(CBS/AP) Two teenagers were arrested after police found a video of them showing two children, including one just two years old, how to smoke marijuana, authorities said.
Fort Worth Police found the video Feb. 22 while investigating Demetris McCoy, 17, and Vanswan Polty, 18, in connection with some burglaries.
In the video, the children are called "potheads" and a man can be seen placing what appears to be a marijuana cigarette into a baby's mouth. In another part of the video a boy is seen smoking on his own. The children were also asked if they "have the munchies."
"It is unbelievable," Bruce Ure of the Watauga Department of Public Safety told the Dallas Morning News. "You can hear one of them say, 'Let's get high.' And they're just encouraging them to keep puffing on it."
Police said the boys are McCoy's nephews, aged 2 and 5. The children have been placed in foster care, the child protective services said.
Both men have been arrested on felony charges of injury to a child and were being held in jail Sunday. It was not immediately known if the two men had attorneys.
"The 2-year-old is puffing away and obviously inhaling. He's coughing like he's got a smoker's cough," Ure told the newspaper. "The 2-year-old is stumbling. He's giggling. He's falling down. He's debilitated. Our suspects are just laughing uncontrollably. They think this is the funniest thing they ever saw."
Shirley Russell, McCoy's grandmother, told KXAS-TV that she was working when the video was made.
"I'm very upset about it. I didn't raise them like that and they know I didn't raise them like that," Russell said. "I feel terrible about it, it's outrageous, all the things that went on and I didn't know nothing about them."
Asked for comment by KXAS-TV as he was being led into jail, McCoy responded with expletives.
A telephone listing found for a Vanswan Polty in the Fort Worth-area was not in service. A telephone listing for McCoy could not be immediately found.
The video is on this link as well. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/05/national/main2535164.shtml
Whether you smoke pot or not. That is your choice good or bad. But to have a family member/relative give two toddlers, 2 and 5 years of age, pot to smoke, it is disgusting.