Important Life Lessons Learned in a Meth Lab
Most parents struggle with finding ways to teach their children important life lessons while trying to make ends meet.
E.H. was lucky. Her parents encouraged her to help out at their home-based business and, along the way, she picked up skills that will last her a lifetime. When Tennessee police performed a raid on her parents’ meth lab, she was taken into custody and was able to tell investigators about all the things she had learned at home:
–E.H. already knew how to cook. She helped to stir the meth as it was cooking, even though “the bad stuff made her sick a lot.”
–She was familiar with medical techniques from seeing her “aunts” and “uncles” giving themselves shots of the bad stuff.
–Well on her way to an exciting career in exotic dancing, E.H. had seen her parents have intercourse enough times so that she “could demonstrate sexual movements.”
Keep in mind that E.H. was only four years old when she told investigators all this. Imagine what she could have learned if she’d been allowed to spend a few more years with her parents!
Tags: Abuse, meth, meth+lab, parents+behaving+badly, tennessee
27 opinions for Important Life Lessons Learned in a Meth Lab
Ann Adams
Oct 25, 2005 at 10:58 am
Very little time elapses between meth raids around here. We have the dubious distinction here in the CA central valley of being the “meth capital” of something (maybe the U. S.). I hope TN isn’t trying to catch up. From the locations, it sounds like meth has proved more profitable than bootlegging.
Meth is different from the other drugs - people (especially kids) are hurt or killed in its manufacture. Civil libertarian that I am, I have no problem with limits on purchase of ephedrine (new CA law) or even having to ask a store clerk for it. It’s one of my few exceptions. We don’t have to sign anything and there’s nothing to stop anyone going from store to store, but at least it’s a start.
Regardless of my opinions about consenting adults, all bets are off with me when it comes to kids.