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http://www.enidnews.com/localnews/local_story_263005222.html
An Enid mother is free on $5,000 bond after being charged with leaving her six children home alone Saturday in squalid conditions and failing to provide food and supervision, the charges allege.
Dwan Jean Wood, 28, was charged in Garfield County District Court with a felony count of child neglect Tuesday. Wood appeared in court Monday, but charges had not yet been filed.
The crime is punishable by up to life in prison or up to a year in county jail, a fine of $500 to $5,000 or both.
Enid police went to 1017 W. Cherokee about 9:06 p.m. Saturday after dispatchers reported a 911 hang up call.
Officer Tim Doyle arrived and saw several lights on in the house but no one answered.
As Doyle was leaving, he saw a boy at a front window looking at him. The boy then went to the door and opened it.
Doyle asked the boy if his parents were home, and he said they were not and he did not know where they were, according to court documents. The boy also told said he was home with his 6-year-old brother, his 2-year-old twin brothers and another brother who is 8 months old.
The boy told police he was left in charge of his siblings and he was 8 years old.
Doyle noted toys, clothes and trash, including dirty diapers, were all over the living room, according to the affidavit. Doyle spoke with the 6-year-old who showed police a crib where the infant was sleeping and a room with a closed door where the twin boys were.
Doyle saw the doors were tied together with a cable, and the 6-year-old said his mother locks them in there because they were always getting into things and messing things up, according to the affidavit. The boy also said Wood only lets the twins out of the room when she feeds them.
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An Enid mother is free on $5,000 bond after being charged with leaving her six children home alone Saturday in squalid conditions and failing to provide food and supervision, the charges allege.
Dwan Jean Wood, 28, was charged in Garfield County District Court with a felony count of child neglect Tuesday. Wood appeared in court Monday, but charges had not yet been filed.
The crime is punishable by up to life in prison or up to a year in county jail, a fine of $500 to $5,000 or both.
Enid police went to 1017 W. Cherokee about 9:06 p.m. Saturday after dispatchers reported a 911 hang up call.
Officer Tim Doyle arrived and saw several lights on in the house but no one answered.
As Doyle was leaving, he saw a boy at a front window looking at him. The boy then went to the door and opened it.
Doyle asked the boy if his parents were home, and he said they were not and he did not know where they were, according to court documents. The boy also told said he was home with his 6-year-old brother, his 2-year-old twin brothers and another brother who is 8 months old.
The boy told police he was left in charge of his siblings and he was 8 years old.
Doyle noted toys, clothes and trash, including dirty diapers, were all over the living room, according to the affidavit. Doyle spoke with the 6-year-old who showed police a crib where the infant was sleeping and a room with a closed door where the twin boys were.
Doyle saw the doors were tied together with a cable, and the 6-year-old said his mother locks them in there because they were always getting into things and messing things up, according to the affidavit. The boy also said Wood only lets the twins out of the room when she feeds them.
More at link, keep reading...it gets worse.