Matthews North Carolina parents are facing drug charges after their child took marijuana that allegedly belonged to them to school and told a police officer at school that his parents were using drugs at home and breaking the law.
The fifth-grader, who attends an elementary school in Matthews, N.C., recently took part in a DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program at his school.
After attending the DARE presentation, the 11-year-old student, who is not being identified, brought an undisclosed amount of marijuana cigarettes to school. The boy allegedly told a school safety officer that the drugs belonged to his parents.
On Thursday, officers with the Matthews Police Department arrested the child's 40-year-old father and 38-year-old mother and charged them both with misdemeanor counts of marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The child's parents were cited but not jailed, pending their next court appearance. Social services, however, has removed the 11-year-old and a sibling from the family home and placed them with relatives, police say.
Matthews police Officer Stason Tyrrell said: "Even if it's happening in their own home with their own parents, they understand that's a dangerous situation because of what we're teaching them at school."
The child's father said he does not give drugs to his children. When asked how his child got the drugs, the father reportedly said it was "no one's business."
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