Post by Vermontn03 on Jun 27, 2012 21:13:26 GMT -5
Stephanie Davis Left Starving Toddler Covered In Feces When She Went To Jail, Police Say
Police in Georgia charged a 21-year-old mother with cruelty to children on Friday after discovering her toddler covered in feces, hungry and locked inside her garbage-strewn home.
Forsyth County sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the Cumming home of Stephanie Davis when a concerned family member reported her concern for Davis' young son, according Sheriff Ted Paxton.
The caller said Davis contacted her around 4:30 a.m., after she was arrested by Roswell police for driving drunk and speeding. The family member said Davis assured her that someone was watching her son, police said.
When deputies arrived at Davis' home they received no response to knocks on the front door. During a cursory search of the exterior, they heard a dog barking and the cries of a child coming from an open window.
"Because of the extenuating circumstances, one of the deputies pulled the screen off of the window and entered the home," Paxton said. "The deputy then made his way to the room where he heard the child crying. What he found was a child that was trapped in his room by a closed door, equipped with a safety device on the inside doorknob, that prevented the child from opening the door."
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Police in Georgia charged a 21-year-old mother with cruelty to children on Friday after discovering her toddler covered in feces, hungry and locked inside her garbage-strewn home.
Forsyth County sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the Cumming home of Stephanie Davis when a concerned family member reported her concern for Davis' young son, according Sheriff Ted Paxton.
The caller said Davis contacted her around 4:30 a.m., after she was arrested by Roswell police for driving drunk and speeding. The family member said Davis assured her that someone was watching her son, police said.
When deputies arrived at Davis' home they received no response to knocks on the front door. During a cursory search of the exterior, they heard a dog barking and the cries of a child coming from an open window.
"Because of the extenuating circumstances, one of the deputies pulled the screen off of the window and entered the home," Paxton said. "The deputy then made his way to the room where he heard the child crying. What he found was a child that was trapped in his room by a closed door, equipped with a safety device on the inside doorknob, that prevented the child from opening the door."
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Happier times? A Facebook picture shows her son and an unidentified man in better times, happy and smiling with her son
Fighting spirit: Police said clothes and old food was strewn about Davis' house
Living in filth: Deputies said there were around 50 bags of garbage on Davis' porch, and the house was in a state of disarray