A West Virginia couple was charged with child neglect after state troopers found a child locked in a feces-smeared bedroom with bungee cords.
The troopers also found drug paraphernalia in the child’s bedroom, WBOY reported.
A criminal complaint field against Candace Conrad, 28, and Tony Blosser, 36, said that the troopers were dispatched to the scene by a 911 caller reported “possible child neglect” after seeing a “child playing in the roadway, wet and with light clothing” on March 23, when the temperature was 48 degrees outside.
The troopers spoke with the caller and then with Conrad and Blosser, who told them the child in question was in a bedroom “assumed to be sleeping.” The couple took the troopers through the home — which police described as “messy, unclean” and with “other unsafe infractions” — to the child’s door, which was secured with bungee cords.
The child “had been locked inside from the outside with a bungee system,” the troopers wroe.
Once inside, the troopers found “feces smeared into the carpet along with being smeared into the walls,” as well as “several items of drug paraphernalia … in an open bedside night stand drawer.”
Conrad told the troopers that she had used a pipe found in the drawy “the day prior to smoke” methamphetamine, they said.
The pair have been charged with two counts each of child neglect. They are being held on $20,000 bonds, Law&Crime said.
