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A Chesterfield County man who was a “crack baby” at birth to parents addicted to crack cocaine pleaded guilty Monday to murdering them 28 years later, along with his sister, while on a crack binge last year after believing he had no other option.

Under terms of a plea agreement, Carl V. Hughes IV, 29, was sentenced to 150 years in prison with 60 years suspended after pleading guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the Sept. 22, 2015, stabbing deaths of his father, Carl V. Hughes Jr., 71; his mother, Angela Anderson Hughes, 54; and sister, Bianca Hughes, 22, in the family’s home in the 3200 block of Walmsley Boulevard.

In tragic irony illustrating the scourge of drug addiction, defense attorney John Rockecharlie told the court that his client was born in Philadelphia in 1986 to parents who were crack cocaine addicts. Immediately after he was born, Carl Hughes IV had to be treated for his exposure to the drug while in his mother’s womb and then removed from the custody of his parents and placed in foster care.

His parents’ earlier child, also a son, died shortly after birth due to his mother’s addiction.

Hughes remained in the foster care and juvenile probation systems until he turned 18. He began smoking marijuana at age 6 and first used crack in 2009 when he was 23, the attorney said.