The Honea Path Police Division introduced Monday the arrests of Kayla Renard and Nicholas Foley, who had been charged with illegal conduct towards a baby and in poor health therapy of animals, in addition to city ordinance violations, after authorities did a welfare verify on their residence.

Officers had been dispatched to the house after Division of Social Providers allegedly “expressed considerations in regards to the unsafe setting for an eight-month-old toddler.” These considerations had been apparently justified, as authorities reveal what they discovered contained in the residence.

“In my 30-plus years of service, I’ve by no means encountered such a horrific state of affairs involving unsanitary circumstances and such a lot of animals,” police mentioned in an announcement shared to Fb.

Among the many “extreme unsafe and unsanitary circumstances” they are saying “put the toddler in danger” was the very fact the house was “infested with quite a few animals, together with raccoons, rabbits, canine, cats, chickens, and deceased animals.” The animal’s “feces and waste” was discovered all through the house, as police referred to as backup from a neighborhood shelter, PAWS, to assist with the “overwhelming variety of animals.”

Dr. Kim Sanders of PAWS informed WJCL that 47 animals in whole had been discovered — 41 alive, 6 useless — together with raccoons, chickens, rabbits and canine.

“Simply the quantity of feces and ammonia, it was very, very troublesome to breathe,” Sanders informed the outlet. “Once we had been there, there have been no bowls for water. It was simply completely disgusting and simply actually miserable for my workers and myself. It is simply laborious to see animals in that type of situation. It is rewarding to have the ability to take them out of there, however on the similar time, they had been positively struggling.”

“Simply seeing the animals in that situation, it was evident that they’ve not been out of these crates for fairly a while,” Sanders added. “There have been maggots crawling within the meals bowls.”

However that is not all they discovered within the residence — as authorities additionally declare they found a “decomposing goat carcass within the bathtub.”

“As soon as my officers went inside, they found simply piles of trash and animal feces. There have been a number of several types of animals working round,” Honea Path Police Chief Chris Miller informed FOX Carolina. “Raccoons, chickens, cats, canine. There was a useless goat within the bathtub within the lavatory that had been decomposing for a number of days.”

“It was simply one of the vital horrific scenes that I’ve ever been part of in 30 years,” he added.

Miller additionally addressed the couple’s obvious lack of emotion throughout their arrest.

“Sitting there calm and actually no emotion. No facial expressions,” he recalled. “You’d suppose that they’d be a bit upset that somebody was taking their eight-month-old child, that the police had been there and found the horrific circumstances of this home. You’d suppose that they must know that they had been in hassle.”

The kid was positioned within the care of a relative and, per Miller, is “OK” and “was in fairly good situation for the unsanitary situation of the home.”

Renard and Foley had been each given $10,000 surety bonds, with FOX reporting Foley posted his bond Tuesday. There isn’t any document of Renard as a present inmate on the Anderson County Sheriff’s Workplace web site.

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