WATAUGA, Texas (CNN) -- Police in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, said a videotape found in a search for stolen goods appears to show two teenagers persuading a 2-year-old boy and his 5-year-old brother to smoke marijuana.

Third-degree felony charges have been filed against the teenagers.

"I have never seen anything like this quite so disturbing," said Bruce Ure, director of public safety for the Watauga Police Department. "Our children count on us to protect them; these individuals did everything but protect these children."

The incident began unfolding February 22, when the Fort Worth Police Department executed a search warrant to look for stolen goods in the apartment of 17-year-old Demetris McCoy, the unemployed uncle of the two children, and 18-year-old Vanswan Polty, Ure said.

Among the items recovered was camera equipment, Ure said. Upon looking at one of the tapes, investigators came across "a session where these two males were providing marijuana" to the youngsters, he said. "They were essentially trying to get them high, laughing. The children are stumbling, falling around."

Ure said it appeared that the videotaped scene was not the boys' first such session.

The 2-year-old was holding what appeared to be a marijuana cigarette "like he's done it before," Ure said. "He's inhaling."

The boys' mother, McCoy's sister, has told police she was sleeping in the back bedroom during the incident. She has not been charged, Ure said.

Nor has another minor, who served as the cameraman, Ure said.

In the video, a man puts a cigarette into the toddler's mouth. The other boy is seen smoking without prompting.

The children have been in the custody of Child Protective Services, Ure said.



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awww thats so cute, he knows how to pass to the left and everything!

not cool, but I can't help but chuckle over the story's continued use of the term "session" to describe the incidents. whoever wrote that story is a stoner.

The story was on CNN last night, and after the item they cut to a Doobie Brothers Album commercial.

seriously.

2 & 5 is a little young.

I think you guys must have been smoking some of that WACKY TABACY as well. Your replies to this are funny and written like true potheads!

How so?

gemini13 said:

uhhhh after reading all of the above article you came with the deadpan reply that 2 & 5 is a "little young." What would be more appropriate ages? Say, 6 & 9?

It was funny, even if unintentionally so.

Terilicious said:

It was sarcastic, I'll give you that.

Terilicious said:

reformed pothead, thank you very much.


snootchie boochies!

Stax said:

It's like a scene from the movie KIDS. That's awful.


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