Charges Dismissed: 4 Portage Children Removed From Cockroach-Infested Home, Parents Charged

[Sugar Cookie]

Two adults face neglect and drug charges after police said they found four children living in an mobile home crawling with cockroaches and other insects, stained with heavy cigarette smoke, and having sections of the flooring missing or stained with what appeared to be dog urine.

"I was wearing a face mask for COVID protocols, but still had my breathing negatively affected by the thickness of the smoke causing my lungs and throat to burn and my eyes irritated," Portage police Lt. Troy Williams wrote in his incident report.

"(A resident) advised to be careful as cockroaches sometimes fall from the ceiling and could land on your head/shoulders," Williams wrote.

Two of the children were found lying on a blanket on the wooden floor, another on a couch and the fourth in a playpen, he said. Marijuana and smoking pipes also were reportedly discovered.

Police said they had been called to the mobile home for a disturbance, and while speaking with residents, discovered the conditions and children.

The mother of the children, Katherine Phillips, 27, and father of the youngest child, Jacob Dobson, 22, returned home shortly police arrived, according to the report.

Phillips was hostile to officers and showed little remorse about the conditions her children were living in, police said. The parents claimed the children were well taken care of and were only to be there a short time since they were evicted from next door.

A child protective service official determined the residence was not fit for children and it was in their best interest to be removed, police said. The news upset the parents, who then refused to listen to officials.

Phillips was taken into custody after allegedly pushing past police and remaining in a bathroom while screaming.

Phillips is charged with four felony counts of neglect of a dependent and misdemeanor interference with the Department of Child Services, court records show.

Dobson is charged with one felony count of neglect of a dependent, felony possession of a narcotic drug and misdemeanor interference with the Department of Child Services, court records state.

4 Portage children removed from cockroach-infested home, police say; parents charged

"(A resident) advised to be careful as cockroaches sometimes fall from the ceiling and could land on your head/shoulders," Portage police Lt. Troy Williams said.

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[Satanica]

(A resident) advised to be careful as cockroaches sometimes fall from the ceiling and could land on your head/shoulders

 

[roadsidehorror]

Weed didn't make this gross ass situation. Most of us smoke, get extremely self aware, get paranoid and clean everything!

Trash has little trash babies and the serpent is eating itself.

 

[cubby]

Them two make me itch just looking at them. Poor babies had roaches falling on their heads and probably crawling up the legs too. Just gross.

 

[TammyHenson]

Curious. If a neighbor knew roaches would drop from the ceiling, obviously they had been in the trash dump. Why did it take a disturbance to bring the cops out? Why had they not reported it?

 

[RavagesTheCabbages]

Um, eeeeew.

How do such nasty creeps find each other? Does one simply overlook the loathsome living conditions of the other or were they both this nasty from the jump?
We had to close off a room in the hospital that a patient infested with the bugs crawling from their one "personal" bag until it could be decontaminated. Some babies you can only say Godspeed to.

 

[Future_Milf]

I soooooo wish these two shitstains had smiled in their mugshots. You just KNOW their teeth have to be epic.

 

[Sejanus]

Two dirty rancid mops

 

[Archibald Bunker II]

F*cking Scumbags

 

[Sugar Cookie]

State of Indiana v. KATHERINE M PHILLIPS​

State of Indiana v. JACOB H DOBSON​

 

[runninfawn]

wow all charges dismissed wonder why ... sure wasn't because it was a sanitary place for any child to live... adults can choose to live that way but kids have no choice

 

[the cat did it]

When I was like 18 I went over to a friends house (she lived with her parents who partied WAY too much), I hadn't been at the house in quite sometime. Anyway I walk in thru the entrance that is the eat in kitchen, I almost screamed, there was a round kitchen table in the middle of the kitchen I remember and it was crawling with roaches and not only that they were falling from the ceiling on to the table and floor-it was literally like my worst nightmare come true-I don't do bugs, especially roaches, they scare me! Well needless to say I turned right around and walked out the house, nope could not stay in there a second longer. wonder how or why she got all those charges dropped??