Florida charter school dean and wife gave teen babysitter weed and alcohol for 2 years, cops say
Joseph Wilkinson
They put the “high” in high school.
A Florida couple gave their babysitter free marijuana and alcohol while she watched their children dozens of times over the past two years, police said.
Adam Thayer, 38, and his wife, Misty Mitchell-Thayer, first hired the teenage babysitter in 2018, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. The unidentified girl was 15 years old at the time and charged with watching the Thayers’ 5-year-old twin boys.
Over the next two years, the couple gave the babysitter alcohol and weed around 30-40 times while she watched the kids, cops said. The babysitter admitted to investigators that she would get drunk and high and would not have been capable of caring for the children in an emergency.