Dad injected his kids with heroin so they would know what it was like to get high

'Heroin dad' gets 10 years in prison
By William C. Lhotka
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/29/2007

Stephen Pickle

A Hazelwood man who injected his teenage sons with heroin and cocaine in 2005 was sentenced Thursday in St. Louis County Circuit Court to 10 years in prison.

The father, Stephen Pickle, 39, of Hazelwood, said he gave his children the drugs so they would understand how he felt when he did the drugs himself, according to court records. His youngest son also contracted hepatitis C as a result of the injections. His sons were ages 12 and 16 at the time.

Pickle pleaded guilty April 26 of five felony counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia.

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In the interview with Luzette Wood, a caseworker at the Childrens Advocacy Center of St. Louis, Ryan Pickle told her that he was told by his father, "If he allowed his dad to inject him, Ryan might understand what it was like to be him."

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will have the chance to repair their lives before he sees the outside world again. He created one addict, and screwed up his other two children (he also injected his daughter, but no charges were filed because she was over 18 at the time.)

What a horrible story, and what a crazed, idiotic, dangerous waste of oxygen he is. x(

That's not a nice disease.

Okay, if you want to shoot heroin and ruin your life, so be it, but why shoot your kids up? Proof that heroin just rots your brain. Man, and the authorities do not even know where the older son is now.

Poor kid.

dumbfuck

dumbfuck is right

to die. There is no cure for HepC. Unless the kid gets hit by a bus, he will eventually die from it.

That guy should be in prison for the rest of his life. I don't want that piece of shit back out on the street again, EVER.

What was that judge THINKING? Pot smokers get longer sentences than that.

Can't they try him for Murder?

because his intent was to dope the kid up, not pass along a diseases he probably didn't know he had.

There are no laws against being stupid, alas, not even when it's murderously stupid.

I hope they put this asshole away for a long, long time. :grr:

of Dr. Spock. Personally I enjoy the original

of the woodworks everyday.