Dad arrested for forcing kids to drink wine, smoke pot during visitation (Fort Pierce, Florida)

This probably won't be the most dastardly of dads that you'll read about today. But dad RICHARD J. NAZARETH is typical of a lot of the idiots who get visitation these days, with the mother pretty much helpless to do anything about it. This nitwit was apparently doing his own home version of Holy Communion with a little pot thrown in for good measure--all with the kids' full participation, of course. These are the kinds of abuses that the authorities routinely ignore and that mothers are villified for even bringing up. Of course, if you KNEW the kids were drinking wine ( or, um, "the blood of Christ") and smoking marijuana at Dad's, but didn't report it, you would be accused of child neglect. So you can't win for losing.

Just wondering. Is this guy's last name really Nazareth? Sort of like Richard of Nazareth? Hmm.

http://www.cbs12.com/news/children-4725779-told-police.html

Man arrested for forcing his children to drink wine, smoke pot

April 27, 2010 2:51 PM

FORT PIERCE -- A 38-year-old was arrested for forcing his children to drink wine and smoke pot.

Richard J. Nazareth, of 4225 SW Elba Street, is charged with child abuse after his children, ages 9 and 11, told police he made them drink wine, calling it the "blood of Jesus Christ."

Nazareth is also accused of making his 11-year-old son smoke pot with him, calling it "God's herb" and the children told police the boy became so sick, he could not go to school Monday.

When the children returned home from visiting their father, they told their mother, who called police.