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Here's another disturbing story that has made headlines overnight.
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By JIM DOUGLAS / WFAA ABC 8

WATAUGA — A disturbing video seized from a Watauga home was making international headlines on Monday. The tape shows teens teaching two toddlers how to smoke marijuana.

Police have made two arrests, and there could be more to come.

Vanswan Polty, 18, of Fort Worth, faces two counts of injury to a child. He was being held at the Watauga jail.

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Yes, I saw this on the national news.... it is extremely disturbing and makes me ill. Literally.

What kind of imbecile would expose children to that? Obviously has no morals at all and should be punished to the maximum for a crime like this. Child abuse - no doubt.

It seems the teen had regreted the recent incident.
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Teen sorry for video of children smoking pot

By DEBRA DENNIS / The Dallas Morning News and JIM DOUGLAS / WFAA ABC 8

Demetris McCoy says he's sorry for the firestorm he caused after his two young nephews were videotaped as they smoked marijuana, but he says he doesn't believe he is the first to expose the boys to the illegal drug.

The Watauga 17-year-old is in the Tarrant County Jail, charged with injury to a child after police released a video of a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old boy doing drugs.

But even as he apologized in a jailhouse interview with WFAA-TV on Monday, Mr. McCoy talked about how his nephews didn't get high while smoking the marijuana. He predicted the youngsters would have eventually smoked the drug anyway.

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Police shocked by video of pot-smoking toddlers

By Ed Stoddard

DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas police said on Monday they were shocked by the video recording of a pair of toddlers aged two and five being encouraged to smoke marijuana by their uncle and a friend of his.

Police discovered the video last month as they searched a house in the Texas town of Watauga for stolen goods. Local television station aired the video during the weekend.

"Our investigators are shocked. Many if not all of them are parents themselves and they cannot believe that someone would do this to a child," said Bruce Ure, the director of Watauga's department of public safety.

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And you know the sad part, on the earlier post, the suspect said it wasn't that much of a big deal.

I doubt he is sorry for giving it to them...he is probably more sorry that he decided to video tape it...I hope they lock him up and throw away the key; also, I hope they investigate the parents...just encase.

Oh yeah... I agree. But he is sorry all right... if you know what I mean. Like you said, he is probably more sorry that they found out about it. This is just mind boggling- anyone that can do anything like this and be pleased with themselves and think its amusing.

Punish them!

brunota2003 wrote:I doubt he is sorry for giving it to them...he is probably more sorry that he decided to video tape it...I hope they lock him up and throw away the key; also, I hope they investigate the parents...just encase.

Custody hearing set for pot-smoking tots

WFAA ABC 8 Staff Writers

A hearing has been scheduled for April 26 to determine who should have custody of two boys, ages 2 and 5, who were shown in video footage smoking marijuana provided by their uncle, officials said. The boys are in foster care until the court decides where they should be placed.

A spokeswoman for Child Protective Services said she could not comment because of a gag order from the judge in the case. The video, which received extensive national coverage, showed the uncle, Demetris McCoy, teaching the boys how to smoke pot.

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How ANYONE could leave those 2 guys in charge of the toddlers is beyond me.

Stooge, let's not turn this into another copy and paste thread, okay? Thanks.