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Pike couple charged with child abuse due to ‘environmental neglect’
ELKHORN CITY, Ky. — A Pike County couple has been charged with child abuse after police say their three children were living in a home described as heavily cluttered, unsanitary and in a state of significant disrepair.
A Kentucky State Police trooper was called to a home on Regina Belcher Highway Tuesday evening to investigate a report of alleged environmental neglect.
According to the police report, the trooper knocked on the door and waited several minutes before a child partially opened it. The trooper asked to speak with the child’s parents but was told that 41-year-old Timothy MacDonald was not home and that 39-year-old Lana MacDonald was in her bedroom and could not be disturbed.
The trooper asked the child to get her mother, and while he waited, Timothy MacDonald arrived home. The officer explained why he was there, but the report says MacDonald initially refused to allow him inside.
“I’m embarrassed. It’s bad,” MacDonald reportedly told the trooper.
The trooper then informed MacDonald that he had six active arrest warrants and that Lana MacDonald had four active warrants. When Lana MacDonald later came outside, she allegedly told officers that if she was going to jail, she would not allow them inside the home.
Timothy MacDonald eventually allowed the trooper and a social worker to enter.
According to the report, the home was extremely cluttered and had a strong odor of ammonia. The trooper wrote that the inside of the refrigerator was coated with what appeared to be dirt or black mold and that dead insects were found inside.
The MacDonalds were each charged with second-degree criminal abuse, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Their three children, ages 5, 11 and 16, were placed in protective custody and turned over to social services.
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Pike Central Fentanyl overdose rumors not true
PIKEVILLE, KY. – Rumors circulating this morning declared that a teacher at Pike Central had suffered from a fentanyl overdose. But a phone call with Principal Timothy Cline confirmed that no such incident occurred.
Cline explained that a teacher went to the nurses’ station “feeling faint.” EMS was called as a precaution. Pikeville EMS responded and determined that there was no fentanyl present, and the symptoms were more likely caused by dehydration and/or exhaustion.
“I was very alarmed to see a rumor circulating about a fentanyl overdose,” Cline said.The principal explained that all measures were taken to make sure that all students are safe. “We are 100 percent sure that everything is okay,” Cline said.
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