A Grayson County couple has been accused of abusing their baby.
Kentucky State Police responded to a residence on Cave Creek Road in Falls of Rough after receiving information from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) that children were being abused.
Upon Trooper Jared Clemons arriving at the home to conduct an investigation, he made contact with the four children, ages six, four, two, and 10 months. Neither Todd Duncan, 31, nor his wife, Samantha Duncan, 28, was home with the children.
Clemons and CHFS investigators entered the home with a man who also lives at the residence and found “the odor in the house was overwhelming,” according to the arrest citation. Investigators found the ten-month-old “was … filthy and had multiple bruises …,” the citation states. The other children were also “filthy.”
Authorities then made contact with the ten-month-old baby in a bedroom and discovered the child “lying in a pool of her own urine and fecal matter.”
“Even the outside of the diaper was stained brown from all of the fecal matter she had been lying in,” the citation states. “Her legs and back had fecal matter on them as well.”
“The child,” Clemons wrote in the citation, “was left in the most disgusting and inhumane conditions I have seen in my career.”
Upon interviewing the Duncans, the couple admitted to police they had not checked on the baby for several hours.
The children were removed from the home and both parents arrested and charged with first-degree criminal abuse (victim 12-years-old or younger). The Duncans were also recently indicted by a Grayson County Grand Jury on the same charge.
The couple was lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
