Two kids left to fend for selves in tent outside mobile home by parents, Mark and Kathy Tucker: cops

Source: New York Daily News

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 girls 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.



Read more: 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

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WTF???

At least they knew that.

Mom drunk and passed out... door locked.

Except I was the younger sister and my older sister made sure I was taken care of. She is 6 years older. I remember her cooking, doing the dishes and laundry. Getting me up and ready for school. Everything a mother should have been doing. Then the real kicker was when my sister turned fourteen our 'mommy dearest' handed her over to a neighbor because this guy convinced our mom that my sister need a good f*ck. I was twelve when my turn came.

My sister and I do not call this person mom or mother, we refer to her by her first name when we talk about her.
The woman is almost 80 now and is still a drunken drug addict. Why or how she has managed to live this long is unbelievable.

I had a similar childhood...and it is a long road back to normal, isn't it?

I hope you have found some kind of peace and healing--it's very difficult to
sort through a mess that someone else creates in your own life.

I wish you nothing but the best. I'm sorry that you did not have the
mom you deserved. You were an innocent, sweet child who did not deserve that.

Take care.

Funny (not in a haha way) but as I grew older I found that I had more in common with people than not and therefore felt- not so alone. So many of my friends and people I've met through out the years grew up in some pretty horrible situations.

20+ years ago due to numerous things.... let's just say I dealt with and came to terms (for the most part) with my childhood and growing up. Today I'm good, my sister is good and we're best friends and closer than any two sister can be:-) and today I'm a very happy woman and thank you yes.. I have peace, light and love :thumbsup:

It was a long dark road but in the end I am who I am because of those things I've experienced in my life, good and bad.
I love my life and thoroughly enjoy living it every day.

Love and peace to you CoffeeCat :loveya:

I wish you well, ma'am!

I myself try to look back into my childhood but can't do it.

Way too many locked doors with lost keys.. I think sometimes it's best that way.

for you and your sister.

The percentage of women and girls who get sexually abused in this country.

4 of 5 women have been sexually molested to some degree. Pretty frightening if it's accurate.
I imagine the stats for boys is not much different. Seems many boys/men have been molested and abused too.

Too many sickos.

4 of 5? I wish to God I could say I was shocked.

something about a social safety net or about kids looking for a handout from their parents.

Sorry, this is beyond sarcasm. Just makes me sick.

you read the article.

you read the article.

I, too, am of a sarcastic bent, but this is fucking ridiculous.

Give 'em to me. I'll take care of them.

:hide:

I'm just a mom, and these stories always make me want to gather up the kids in my arms and take care of them. Not creepy at all. Been a mom for 30+ years. 'Sok.

I imagine a lot of moms had that response.

Man, I'd take them.

:thumbsup:

I not only want to wrap the kids in my arms and take care of them, but I want to do some very non-motherly things to the parents.

:mad: :mad: :mad:

i want to take kids who are riding around without seatbelts home. these kids? bring it.

My apologies. :blush:

I am a mom, and I understand how she feels. You hear about the abuse
of children, and it pulls at your heartstrings because you recognize
through your own children how ALL children are innocent, vulnerable, sweet--and so dependent on the
integrity of their caregivers.

I was also abused as a child, and the comment was nice to hear. Puts into perspective that
there are great people out there.

them for help... As a community we need to wake up and know that if Goldman Sachs can receive help without going to jail then so can these parents...

bin Laden.

Those guys wrecked the world economy so they could personally profit.

Such couples have in the words of the President, a 'spiritual element' which gay people lack in their relationships. God creates the Sacrament that is Straight Marriage. Hallelujah. Amen. One man, one woman.

with the dog on guard duty while she went about her housework. Of course, she DID come and feed me. But I did turn out gay.

At four I was working cattle on horseback and at five I had full unattended freedom over the 200 acre home place on horseback.

These kids were not.

These kids didn't have "freedom." They were held captive by not being provided the bare necessities of life: adequate shelter, food, clean clothing.

My situation was not uncommon where I grew up. In-fact, I was a little backward. Others my age were training horses.

My Mother used to tell of going on picnics when she was five, where they would build fires and cook their meals.

It was a bitch to learn the hard why why you drain it first :rofl:

What's your point?

:eyes:

I helped capture a serial killer while still in the womb!

You seem to have a great sense of humor.

so little traffic in the 1910's! She was a wanderer and Momps did it to protect her. She would be arrested today. I believe my g-aunt was straight, but wouldn't bet on it, she was a 'wild' one and played piano for beer at the speakeasys, as did my Nanya! :rofl:

Far better than any gay couple could ever be. Right Mr. Obama?

"Sanctified Straight Marrieds at play!" :rofl:

That shouldn't be too awfully difficult to find a safer environment
I hope the bar is set at a higher level

You have children, you have a basic responsibility whether you like it or not.

Fuck 'em.

Meth is big in Texas. This is the end result.

Poor babies. My partner sees this a lot in his 5th grade class. A 5th grader is the parent.

I need to make some healing beads now.

Can't say more. I'm angry enough as it is.

Once the dog dies, the kids have meals for days. These kids just need to toughen up......

Horrible parents. What would cause people to do things like this? Hmmmmmmmmm.

Yeah, right.

It read as though the Tuckers are both cops!

assuming I had missed that statement regarding the parents.

Oddly phrased, I'll admit, but I'm too new here to play fast-and-loose with the rules. ;-)

of dollars making sure the state had a constitutional amendment preventing the gays from marrying. And millions more defending adoption laws that excluded gay parents. . .after all, the GOP surely had a reason to protect the highly moral sanctity of the marriage of Mark and Kathy Tucker and the now likely burden on the taxpayers this undesireable legalized union will put on all of us.

At least that species takes a pack attitude and minds their young.

What a waste of protoplasm ... Piss poor protoplasm bleeding out of two idiots that know how to copulate and sell piss poor protoplasm for a bad habit of breathing.

It certainly wasn't for their 3 kids.

One couple does not determine a nation.

Consider: there were far fewer people in Austria than there are in the US, but I wouldn't consider Adolf a representative of that country.

Rather, these douchebag parents are symptomatic indicators of a nationwide mentality, which has been with us since the "me first/instant gratification" 1980s.

after every horrific story people leap to this "what is happening to us!??!!" mentality.

When in reality these are just terrible parents that could have been around in any country, at any time point.

The latest generation is always assumed to be the worst. Either we've been in steady decline since the beginning of civilization or people have a poor inherent understanding of statistics.

turning a public health problem into a massive for profit industry.
i wonder how many people would be doing meth if they could be smoking weed. shit, doing cocaine. but meth is home grown. and the worst there is.

I guess the good part is they weren't sold to some 67 year old fundie for a couple goats and a new roof right?

Or so some of us would believe.

It's quite elementary, my dear.

many people believe we are the sole location for all acts of human evil in the entire world.

Stop blaming the whole country for the actions of a small number of lowlifes.

:eyes:

not that I recommend it...

A snip from a story out of the Ukraine (alcoholic parents left 3 YO boy to dogs; they adopted him):

"When social workers finally heeded the warnings from neighbours, the dogs refused to release the boy, who’d be- come a a pack member. He was prised away eventually. “He couldn’t speak and when he saw our cat, he tried to catch her,” says Lyudmila Pohvalnie, who is fostering “Dog Boy”, as he has been called by the Ukrainian press. “When the other children are in bed Edik often whines like a dog. We’re teaching him to eat, sleep, walk and play with kids.” <<

another:

>>"In 1996, Vanya, then four, found himself on the streets of a Moscow suburb after his father was imprisoned and his mother abandoned him. For two years, in freezing conditions, he lived outside with stray dogs. “They cuddled me and licked my face,” he told social workers. “They were better friends than grown-ups.” By day he begged for food, which he shared with the dogs who, as with Edik, became his protectors. When he was put in a children’s home the strays found him, and howled at the gates." <<

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1061048.ece

that don't make the news, because no one cares.

:sarcasm:

Ok, they're terribly negligent and obviously desperate, but seriously, were these children actually starving to death? Or were the parents trying to sell their blood to buy the day's groceries for everyone? This doesn't seem to be a case of the parents leaving the children permanently and starving them to death like some other stories that have surfaced lately. More a case of the kids saying "I'm starving! Could we have something to eat and drink?"

girl...chained to her crib...covered in feces...and she weighed 16 pounds....6 yrs old and 16 pounds....her pig faced parents are in jail and looked well fed...F'ers....they also had a baby that was buried under a shed...

Some people should be sterilized. They should not be allowed to reproduce.

I've already printed and saved. You may want to consider doing the same.

who regard their children as nothing more than crotch droppings. If you want to be a junkie, fine. But could you PLEASE not bring children into the world?

Thanks,
Society