Teen gets jail for coaxing toddlers to smoke pot

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Friday, July 25, 2008

(07-25) 02:57 PDT Fort Worth, Texas (AP) --

A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.

Demetris McCoy, 18, pleaded guilty to two charges of injury to a child/causing bodily injury and agreed to testify against his co-defendant, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported online Thursday.

The video shows one teen lighting a marijuana cigarette in the 2-year-old's mouth, then laughing as the toddler coughs. One teen then tells him to pass it to his brother, who also smokes it and coughs. Parts of the video showed someone calling the children "potheads" and asking if they "have the munchies."

Drug tests showed the youngsters had marijuana and cocaine in their bodies. When the video was made, the children's mother was sleeping in another room, police have said. She was not arrested.

The children, their mother, grandmother and McCoy lived together at the time. The children have since been placed in foster care.

Fort Worth police found the video while searching a house in connection with a burglary investigation in which McCoy also was charged. He pleaded guilty to two burglary charges and received eight-year sentences that he will served at the same time, the newspaper reported.

The co-defendant Vanswan Polty, 19, remains in jail awaiting trial. He faces two charges of injury to a child, three charges of burglary and one charge of failing to identify himself to a peace officer.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/24/national/a191529D62.DTL

Poor children ;o;. Not cool of the teenager to do that at all.

Yeah I saw this on CNN some time back. The kid must have been a real idiot. Why would you want to mess up two kids like that?

Honestly, for real =3=.
Very lame to do that to young children.

Hope this bastard rots in hell aswell.

Oh, that's just bullshit. That's horrible. He deserves to rot in hell.. People these days...

You guys are overreacting. They got a couple of little kids to do some drugs. Pot and coke. They didn't rape them and cut off and eat their penises. They didn't burn them with hair spray flamethrowers. They didn't even give them serious drugs like heroin or meth. Yeah, sure, they did something fucking stupid. But it doesn't warrant such harsh condemnations as "He deserves to rot in hell".

I have to say, I'm pleased about the specifics of the case. Injury to a child, burglary, failure to identify oneself to a police officer. NO POSSESSION CHARGES! Finally, the legal system got something right and busted the kids for what they did wrong and not for having some weed, which shouldn't be illegal anyway.

EDIT: And yes, I realized after posting that this thread was over a month old. My bad.