Police said the three lived in a “deplorable” state with the nine-year-old after it was discovered that they lived in a “deplorable” state with the nine-year-old.
Kelly Walker, 29, Charles Ashbaker, 38, and Douglas Nelson, arrested at 47, came from AT&T, who found $30,000 worth of cable stolen from Flint's workplace. said Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson. In the video.
The worker was called a sheriff's deputy “found a dead dog outside his cage,” and Swanson spoke of shocking neglect that made him “anger” him.
Inside, they spotted a disruptive dog “hadn't eaten for a few weeks” and a “dead puppy in a pizza box.”
“You don't treat animals like this,” the furious sheriff said.
“The house is very deplorable” on the condition that “no one should live,” but the nine-year-old boy was there, the sheriff said without elaborating on his exact relationship with the trio.
“Three adults, two dead dogs, two weakened dogs and one nine-year-old boy,” the sheriff said without attempting to hide Hissdisgust. “Animal hunger, neglect, child neglect. There's everything in this case.”
Walker and Ashbaker were both charged with child abuse, animal cruelty, animal murder and torture, but Ashbaker was further attacked with felony possession of a firearm.
Nelson was charged with resisting arrest in the fight against theft, possession of drugs and fighting a counter-official officer, the sheriff said.
The boy was caring for child protection services and two hungry dogs were sent to the rescue centre, he said.
Walker and Ashbaker are held on a $10,000 bond, while Nelson is held on a $5,000 bond, court records say.
“If you're in a position where you can't care for children or animals, then in this case don't treat them the way we saw them,” the sheriff said.
“Because we will come for you and hold you accountable.”
