In August, Jessica Brandenburg, 24 of Winchester was arrested for neglect of her four dependents after Sate Department of Child Services officials said a man she had allowed to move into her family’s home — Ike Littlebear Richardson, 31 — was cooking meth there while her children were present.
Authorities also said the house had no running water, and most of its floors were “covered in animal feces, busted open dirty diapers and rotten food.”
A large amount of flies and insects were also noted in the house. An affidavit stated that the children, ranging in age from 5 to 2, were determined to have been sleeping in the midst of the filth.
Brandenburg had plead guilty to four counts of neglect of a dependent.
Randolph Circuit Court, Judge Jay Toney, imposed an 18-month sentence for each of the four neglect convictions. Toney then suspended the sentence with the exception of time Brandenburg already spent in the Randolph County Jail, and placed her on probation for three more years. A count of possession of meth pending against Brandenburg was also dismissed at this time.
Brandenburg was convicted of cruelty to an animal after two dogs — one malnourished and the other dead — were found chained outside a Winchester mobile home where she had lived in 2017.
