Pot, kids and violence - always a recipe for success

TPD: Mom beat kid for eating her pot

A Tampa mother is behind bars Monday after beating her one-year-old child for eating her marijuana.
They say marijuana is a gateway drug. Can you imagine what she’d do to that poor kid if he/she found something harder in there? It’s obviously a gateway to harder drugs and child abuse – not necessarily in that order.

Tampa Police say India Couch, 22, faces drug and felony child abuse charges.
You think?

Investigators say the child was left unsupervised, found the pot in her mother's purse, and ate an undisclosed amount of the drug.
How many parenting fails can we find in this single sentence?

1. The child was unsupervised. Never, ever leave a one-year-old unsupervised.
2. The kid found pot in momma’s purse. Never, ever leave your pot in a place where children (and cops, for that matter) will rifle through.
3. The kid ate the pot. Which means the kid has seen momma using it and knew it had to be ingested somehow. (Okay, that’s not really fair, one-year-olds stick everything in their mouths, however, you know the kid has seen momma toking. Don’t try to play it off like this was the first time the kid saw pot because you know it’s not true. Which means, the kid’s contact buzz probably ran out and he/she was just trying to continue the high.)
4. The mom didn’t know how much pot was in the bag, so she was unable to account for how much was missing after the kid ate it. Bad mom. Bad druggie. Bad. (Alright, I’ll be fair, it does say “undisclosed” and not “unknown.” But I prefer to read it as “unknown.” It’s more fun that way.)

That's when police say Couch beat the child with a sandal and then hit the one-year-old hard enough to leave welts.
Wait, how much time passed between the unsupervised one-year-old eating the pot and momma noticing it missing so she could beat the kid? Or did she catch the kid in the act? These are facts we need to know.

TPD also says this mother attacked her live-in partner with a dumbbell.
Was this a separate incident? Or after she was done beating the kid with a sandal, did she go after her live-in partner with a dumbbell screaming, “How could you let this happen? You were supposed to be watching the damn kid. Now we can’t get high tonight, asshole.”