Toddler found in Kentucky home where deputies say dog poop was an inch deep in the floor
A Laurel County man and woman have been charged with abuse after sheriff’s deputies said they found a 2-year-old boy playing in the floor of a home in which dog feces was an inch deep in places.
Two Laurel County sheriff’s deputies went to a home on Parks Subdivision in London Friday morning to do a welfare check, and when they went inside, the found the child playing in the floor with a bottle of bleach, the sheriff’s department said in a Facebook post.
Dog feces was in chairs and on the floor throughout the house “in some places up to an inch deep,” according to the sheriff’s office.
There was “a strong odor of ammonia” in the home and “dirty dishes and trash piled up on the floor and on the countertops.”
“The baby’s feet was covered in dog feces with dog feces caked around (his) toes,” the sheriff’s department said.
The boy’s father and aunt said they could not remember the last time he had been bathed.
The father, Joey Ridener, 30, and aunt, Tammy Hammons, 35, were charged with first-degree criminal abuse of a child 12 or younger.
They were taken to the Laurel County Detention Center.
This story was originally published January 18, 2020 at 12:39 PM.
