Watauga, Texas – Two young children who were forced to smoke marijuana while being videotaped had other illegal drugs in their system at least two weeks after the video was recorded Feb. 7, sources close to the investigation told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Child Protective Services officials are expected to reveal the drug test results at a custody hearing Monday for the 2- and 4-year-old boys and to recommend that the children stay in foster care, officials said.
The children were removed Feb. 23 from the home they shared with their mother, great- grandmother and uncle.
The children’s uncle, Demetris McCoy, 17, and his friend Vanswan Polty, 18, remain in jail, accused of injury to a child and burglary of a habitation.
Fort Worth police found the video on a camera discovered while officers searched McCoy’s home on a burglary warrant. In the video, two teens light marijuana cigarettes for the boys, laugh as the boys stagger about the room and call them pot heads.
The children’s mother, Shatorria Russell, 20, was asleep in another room and had no idea that her brother and his friend were smoking marijuana, her sister Sharonda McCoy has said.
Omar Almesleh, a friend of McCoy’s, says the incident was the first time McCoy had given his nephews marijuana.
“This happens every day. It happens in the ‘hood and suburbs. It’s a horrible thing, but the media has taken it way too far.”
