Colby Couple Charged with Failing to Provide Safe Living Conditions for their Kids

Friday, February 17th, 2023 -- 12:00 PM

(Ted Ehlen, WRN) A Colby couple is charged with failing to provide safe living conditions for their kids.

Court documents say an anonymous tip was received about an apartment that smelled of rotting garbage, was filled with flies, and had feces smeared on the walls.

When officers arrived, what was found included a living room floor covered with garbage, no safe place to prepare meals due to trash and clutter on the counters, a crockpot with rotting food, children’s beds with no sheets, and brown smudges on the wall which the children’s mother said was food and marker.

The children who live in the apartment are staying with a relative until the apartment is cleaned and inspected by Social Services.

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