Their names are Mudd… literally… Meet Chad and Joey Mudd of Largo (near Tampa), FL. That’s their mugshots below.
The parents were arrested on Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 for a variety of felony child abuse charges due to their objectively poor parenting choice in bargaining tools / reward system relative to getting their teen-aged daughters to do household chores and homework. (Chad’s Arrest / Probable Cause Affidavit can be seen both below and here.)
Joey, the teens’ mom (as well as having a pre-school aged daughter), a pediatric care worker, has been charged with multiple counts of child abuse relative to her smoking pot with her daughters on several occasions. Cops claim that the pot was used as a bargaining tool to get the teens to “do chores and get good grades”. Joey is alleged to have admitted smoking pot with her daughters (excluding the pre-schooler) on five (5) occasions. She bonded out of jail but has been ordered not to have any contact with any of her children (all of whom have been “placed” with family members).
Chad, the father of three, works at a local restaurant called “Caddys” but presently remains in jail, not having been bonded out as of yet. He not only picked up child abuse charges but also cocaine possession charges, and has been accused of actually snorting cocaine with his teen-aged daughters in January in his truck. It is unknown whether he made any statements / admissions to the cops.
Sadly, the Mudds are proof positive that whether or not pot ever becomes legal there will, sadly, always be some small percentage of irresponsible users (parents or not) who make the vast majority of otherwise responsible users look bad. And I am also not discounting the possibility the the cops / media have exaggerated this story and that the Mudds were in fact, arguably, responsible, providing their kids with a structured ability to smoke with the understanding and knowledge that they were going to do so anyhow, albeit in otherwise completely uncontrolled and significantly more dangerous / risky circumstances. But still, until it changes the law remains the law, and in any event there’s no getting around the cocaine issue.
Memo to the Folks: The last thing that you want is DCF crawling through your world. I’ve seen this. I know this. DCF is relentless, seemingly omnipotent and practically incompetent. They blither and blunder and, like a plague, they destroy everything in their path. (Okay, so maybe that is a slight overstatement but to some extent it’s also true. For every case that they actually manage to “help” there is another where their involvement is misguided and causes much more harm than good. Regardless of how it actually shakes out, once DCF gets involved the system kicks in and it – your world – is absolutely guaranteed to become a veritable endless sh*tstorm.)
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Top notch, very skilled, and highly attentive. Mr. Haber is a fantastic criminal defense attorney. 
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