Parents Arrested For Bribing Their Kids With Pot and Cocaine To Do Chores and Get Better Grades
MAY 6--A Florida couple used marijuana as a “bargaining tool” to get their teenage daughters–ages 13 and 14–to perform household chores and excel in school, police allege.
Joey and Chad Mudd (seen at right) are facing multiple felony child abuse charges, court records show. The children were provided the pot, investigators say, in the family’s home in Largo, a city 20 miles from Tampa Bay.
Chad Mudd, 36, has also been charged with providing the girls with cocaine, which he allegedly snorted with them earlier this year while the trio was inside his truck.
According to arrest affidavits, Joey Mudd, 34, admitted to smoking pot with her children on five occasions, and referred to the provision of the drug “as a form of a ‘bargaining tool.’”
Charged with two counts of child abuse, Mudd was released from the Pinellas County jail early this morning after posting $5000 bond. She has been ordered to have no contact with her children, who are in the care of a a relative.
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Not to oversimplify the story here but if I’m reading correctly, it would appear the charges against these two parents are “helping their children improve their school work, get better grades to increase their college prospects and career opportunities, and learn how to pitch in and pull their weight in a home environment with other people depending on them”? That about covers it? Parents punished for being parents basically. Unreal.
I guess that’s the message we send to our parents now, turn your kids into model citizens and put them on the road to success, but god forbid you incentivize it at all with some bong rips or nose candy.
Seriously what’s the big deal? Weed is legal like, everywhere now. Walk into any doctor in the country and say you’re having trouble focusing in school and they’ll hand you enough prescriptions of Adderall to overflow your pockets, why not just bump it up a little bit (no pun intended) and snort an 8 ball instead? Know who’s definitely not going to sleep until all their homework is done? The two little teenage Mudds railing lines in their bedroom next to their Geometry homework all night, lining it up with their protractors and shit.
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Bet the Mudd family has the cleanest god damn yard in the county too. But whatever, I guess we penalize success and initiative in this country now. Welcome to Obama’s America folks.