Roaches In Back Pack & Girl Asking To Wash "Very Dirty" Clothes At School Leads To West Virginia Parents Arrest

[Sugar Cookie]

Dwayne Hickman, 37, and Dorothy Hickman, 29, both pleaded guilty to one count of child neglect and were sentenced to two years of probation followed by two years of unsupervised probation. Both parents also received a six-month suspended jail sentence.

As Law&Crime previously reported, staff at the elementary school that the Hickmans' children attended expressed concerns to police about the children's well-being. Police said staff found cockroaches in the son's backpack. The daughter asked her teacher if she could wash her "very dirty" clothes.

On Feb. 10, a teacher from the Doddridge County Early Learning Academy in West Union, West Virginia, a town around 30 miles west of the state's border with Ohio, contacted police and said that a child had bug bites on his "face, hands, and bottom." The boy's condition and the girl's request that a teacher wash her clothes led the Doddridge County Sheriff's Office to contact Child Protective Services (CPS).

When officials from CPS visited the Hickmans' home, they reported "extreme deplorable living conditions" and took the children out of their parents' custody. The children's current custody status is unknown.

Parents of boy who came to elementary school with cockroaches in his backpack get probation

Police were contacted by a teacher at the Doddridge County Early Learning Academy and were told that the son had bug bites on his "face, hands, and bottom."

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[Busy Bee]

That’s really sad to me! The classmates probably made fun of them. The little girl requested that her teacher wash her clothes! Just so sad . Apparently the parents were not too concerned? Sure hope the children got a better place to live! The state will encourage them to “clean up” their house and then this will all start over!!