mark and kathy tucker tent

SMH at these parents thinking that leaving their kids with the family dog in a tent in the woods was a “safe thing” to do:

Florida police believe a pair of starving children was left to fend for themselves in a tent outside their mobile home by their own parents. The 3- and 4-year-old were discovered dirty and desperate for food and water at their Lake Butler home last week by a woman who knew the couple, authorities said.

The parents, Mark and Kathy Tucker, have been arrested and face child neglect charges. In their defense, the parents insisted their dog was on the scene to make sure the children were safe. “They did say the children were protected because of the family dog,” Lt. Lyn Williams, of the Union County Sheriff’s Office, told WJXT 4 News in Jacksonville.

The woman who found the children told police she regularly met Mark, 25, and Kathy, 26, at a methadone clinic in Gainesville where they get treated for drug addiction.

She said the two admitted to leaving their children alone while a third child, 5, was at school. When the two told her they were going to try and sell their blood at a donation center instead of returning home, she went to their residence and found the two kids, The Gainesville Sun reported.

“It was just a terrible sight, terrible scene,” Williams told WJXT 4 News. “There was no food. There was no water. That was the first thing the children asked for.”

There’s no many things wrong here…meth-addicted parents selling blood… living in a mobile home park in a tent with 3 kids and a dog?

Hopefully they never get custody of these kids ever again!!!

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