Tuesday, July 21, 2009
WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — Three people have been charged with felony child endangering for failing to prevent a 6-week-old Ohio girl from being bitten by rats.
Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk says 18-year-old Todd Trent and 33-year-old Joseph Gunter and his wife, 29-year-old Tina Gunter, were in court for an initial hearing today, and a judge set bond at $210,000 each. All three are in the Ross County jail pending a plea hearing in two weeks.
Junk says Trent is the boyfriend of the baby’s mother, who is a juvenile. He declined to identify her or say if she would be charged. He says all four shared a cluttered mobile home.
The baby is in fair condition at a Columbus hospital. Junk says her toes on one foot had been chewed off when sheriff’s deputies went to the mobile home Sunday after receiving an anonymous tip.