Saved four children locked in a dog cage – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

According to police reports, four young children, two of them locked in a dog cage, were found in a barn in a North Texas house.

Officers discovered that two children malnourished they were in a dog cage while two others were covered with excrement and urine, in what the sheriff described as the worst case of child abuse I've seen.

The discovery was made Tuesday morning when the Wise County Sheriff's Office, near Dallas-Fort Worth, was summoned to a property for a report on a domestic riot between a man and a woman, according to the channel. NBC television.

The fight between the two people was what led the officers to the rural house, where they found the man with cuts on the face.

When the Conservatives talked to adults, they heard the voices of two little children, aged 3 and 1, respectively. Later, they noticed the presence of two other children under 4 and 5 years old who were inside the cage.

According to Craig Johnson, deputy director of Wise County, the children were taken for examination to the Cook Medical Center in Forth Worth.

Johnson said that there was a fridge in the living room but there was a padlock. The interior of the house was "dirty and messy".

"There was a lot of food in the barn, but the refrigerator and cabinets were locked so that children can not fetch foodsaid the sheriff, Lane Akin.

"Closing a child at any time in a dog cage is unacceptable," Craig Johnson told the media. "When you find them in the state where they were today, covered with fecal matter, without food at their disposal and without having the appearance of having been treated, this is the only way to get them. is unacceptable, it's bad, "he said.

The deputy chief stated that the residence they visited was a "metal store type building" with rooms inside.

The Wise County Jail identified the adults arrested at home as Andrew Joseph Fabila, 24, and Paige Isabow Harkings, 24.

The two are being held for four counts, according to a prison official. Harkings, who is the mother of the four children, was charged with aggravated badault. We know that Fabila is the father of one of them.