Police in the Cornhusker State say that a husband and wife who run a nutrition store in southeast Nebraska were arrested because their own home was so dirty. It was said that the couple’s children lived with dead animals because the filth was so bad.
Cass County police say that David and Amanda Reynolds, both 42, are charged with four counts of animal cruelty causing injury or death and three counts of child abuse without harm.
It is said that the claims are about four bunnies and three children.
The state’s child welfare agency told Plattsmouth Police on July 26 that the kids had to eat in the bathroom because it was the only clean place in their house, according to court papers that NBC affiliate WOWT. in Omaha, got.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by Lincoln-based CBS affiliate KOLN, the first officer who arrived at the Reynolds home quickly found it to be unclean because there was animal feces all over the place and about 40 chickens on the property.
And, according to the cops, the husband was found sleeping in his car outside, which they think was a bad start to the visit. The police think he was trying to get away from the conditions inside the house. The suspect said he was there to “wait.”
David Reynolds is said to have said that he thought the kids were sleeping inside when asked where they were. He also said for sure that his wife was at work. After that, he gave the cops a big tour.
A police report says that as soon as the officer walked inside, he or she smelled “a strong smell of large amounts of feces and urine.” Getting more specific about the smell attack, the officer said he saw feces on the floors, a lot of trash and clothes lying around, and a number of things on the floor that had been urinated on.
The police officer also saw several dogs and cats running around the house. The police officer noticed that there was still trash and waste on the floors when the father went to wake up his kids.
It looked like some efforts had been made to get rid of the flies. The officer said he saw fly paper hanging from the ceiling, but each piece of the sticky stuff was “fully covered with dead insects,” he said.
The officer said that one of the kids’ reportedly messy and feces-filled rooms had a mattress with a small area clearly set aside for sleeping, according to an affidavit obtained by the Missouri Valley Times News. The officer wrote that the rest of the mattress was used as a trash can. He also said that the trash on the bed was like a trash foothill, spilling out onto the floor to form an even bigger pile that “rose from floor to nearly the ceiling.”
The officer allegedly saw a rabbit hutch in that same child’s bedroom that was reportedly full to the brim with feces and urine.
Once more help came, the police checked the other rooms in the house and supposedly found the same problems.
Over the next two days, police came back twice. The first time, they found Amanda Reynolds clearing up and the front of the house in better shape.
The mother is said to have asked one of the cops if it was okay for her kids to help clean up. The woman says the officer told her that she and her husband were to blame for the mess and that the kids shouldn’t be cleaning the house.
Police say they found a large rabbit pen in the basement on the third day. When one of the officers opened the cellar door, they quickly smelled something that “caused my eyes to burn.” This is what they wrote in the affidavit.
There were wire cages and flooring for rabbits all over a whole room, and four of the little animals were already dead in the pen. The police say they couldn’t see any food or water. According to the statement, when the couple was told the news, they said they didn’t know rabbits were being kept in the basement.
The dead rabbits and the claimed pleas of ignorance that went along with them seemed to be the last straw for the police.
Aaron Reynolds was charged on August 29, and David Reynolds was charged on August 27. Jail records show that the suspects were taken on Sunday and released on Tuesday.
The Times News says the couple runs a diet business. The company that sells protein products, smoothies, infused drinks, and health food supplements said on Facebook that they would be closed until September 7 “due to some family circumstances” but hoped to be able to reopen by September 9.
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