This Florida couple are what we call real dope heads. They have been charged with child abuse after police found out they were getting their children high on drugs so that they can score high grades at school.
According to Smoking Gun Joey and Chad Mudd (pictured) are facing multiple felony child abuse charges after it was revealed that they used marijuana and cocaine as “bargaining tools” to get their teenage daughters to do household chores as well as motivate them to excel in their school work.
The children – aged 13 and 14 – 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.
Court records list Mudd’s employer as a pediatrics care practice.
Chad Mudd, a restaurant worker, remains locked up on six counts of child abuse and a cocaine possession count. (2 pages)
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..
|
