After discovering her children sleeping outside and malnourished, officials in Louisville arrested a mom and put her in prison.
On Wednesday, a girl, who was 16 years old, was discovered sleeping in a school restroom, according to court records.
Jefferson County Public School officials and law enforcement officers visited the teen’s recorded residence. There, under a gazebo covered with tarps, police discovered two youngsters, aged 10 and 11, residing.
Court records indicate that the house was in an uninhabitable state due to a lack of running water and power. The kids were so thirsty and undernourished.
The children were brought to a nearby hospital for examinations after their mother, Betty Sue Snider, 34 years old, was arrested by the police.
Spiders, roaches, and rodents are all over the house, according to relatives who spoke with WDRB. There is a mountain of filth, empty fast food containers, cigarette butts, drug paraphernalia, and trash all throughout the place, and the refrigerator hasn’t worked for months.
“They don’t eat nothing out of the refrigerator or the house,” Mary Burkhammer, the children’s’ great-grandmother said. “They have no bedrooms. They are a mess.”
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Burkhammer resides in the same neighborhood, and she claims that despite multiple calls to the police and CPS, nothing was done until Thursday.
“I don’t know what’s the matter with the mother,” Burkhammer said. “I don’t, this is just like a dream, how can you leave a kid one day and one night knowin’ they don’t have nothin’ to eat and they don’t know for sure. She knows they don’t come down here because they are told to stay away from me. If they are caught down here, no tellin’ what would happen.”
The arrest citation states that Snider claimed knowledge of “the home was unlivable and filled with items” and the children’s outside sleeping arrangements. Beyond that, Snider told the authorities she would abandon the kids there “for extended periods of time.”
On three separate occasions, Snider has been accused of wanton endangerment, abandonment, and endangering the welfare of a kid. On Friday morning, she will likely be arraigned in court.