It's proof positive that some people who live in trailers are, in fact, "trailer park trash." And when you make the trailer park the setting for a Home Alone story, then you just know it's going to turn into a horror picture, just as it did over the past week in Union County, Florida (allegedly).Cops there say Daddy (25-year-old Mark Tucker) and Mommy (26-year-old Kathy Tucker) (both pictured above) had a little dilemma on their hands last week. It seems the happy couple needed to head to the local methadone clinic for a little rehab. Only problem? Who was going to take care of the little shits (two daughters aged three and four)?
Granny (who also lives in the couple's trailer home) couldn't do it, since there's apparently something not quite right with Granny (cops say Granny "was not capable of caring for the girls and may not have even known who they were"). [BTW, what gives with Granny, who's probably only in her 50's?] So strike Granny off the list.
But wait! There's Spot the family dog! They don't allow pets in rehab, so Mommy and Daddy reportedly figured they'd task Spot with looking after the girls while the couple was away. ("They did say the children were protected because of the family dog," said the sheriff's office).
And that's how cops say it went down: Mommy & Daddy left the two little girls to "fend for themselves" outside the trailer home in a tent (pictured above), although they did make sure to leave behind the family dog to "protect" the girls. Gee -- good to know Mommy & Daddy were only thinking of the kids!
When someone finally reported to cops that two little girls had been abandoned outside in a tent, the cops showed up to a veritable horror show. "It was just a terrible sight, terrible scene," said one deputy.
Mommy & Daddy reportedly had left no food or water for the girls (when they said "fend for yourselves," they really meant it, damn it). The girls were found filthy and wandering about aimlessly in the woods behind their tent, clad only in pajamas. One had lost a shoe.
They were also reportedly "starving" and "desperate for food and water," which "was the first thing the children asked for." No word on the absent parents' reaction to this situation, but something tells me they'd probably try to point the finger at Spot for his bad parenting skills.
Mommy and Daddy, meantime, were reportedly in no real hurry to get home after they completed their rehab session. Instead, they were allegedly more worried about making some dough in town by selling their blood plasma at a donation station. After all, you can't feed those little shits on good intentions alone, no?
Regardless, Mommy and Daddy's "we left the dog to look out for them" defense apparently didn't carry much weight with the cops, who threw the couple in the clink on child neglect charges late last week.
If these sleazebuckets ultimately have to spend some real hard time in the hoosegow, here's hoping they don't get the comfort of a cell but instead are forced to live in a tent out in the prison yard like they made their little girls do (allegedly). And as for their water and grub, let them "fend for themselves" out there. An eye for an eye, as they say.
For now, the girls have been placed with other relatives. The sheriff's office and local juvy department say they're now working to help the girls and find "a safer environment" than the one that Mommy and Daddy offered. "Safer" than that? Methinks an Afghanistan war zone might be the only place in the world less safe than livin' with the Tuckers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387408/Young-girls-desperate-food-water-parents-forced-live-outside-tent.html#
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/05/15/2011-05-15_two_kids_left_to_fend_for_selves_in_tent_outside_mobile_home_by_parents_cops.html?r=news
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110511/ARTICLES/110519920/-1/entertainment?Title=Lake-Butler-couple-accused-of-leaving-preschoolers-alone-in-tent&tc=ar
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