Sunday, September 18, 2016
Associated Press
LEBANON, OHIO
An Ohio boy’s parents have pleaded guilty to child-endangering charges after police say an officer found the 7-year-old trying to sell a stuffed animal to buy food.
Michael and Tammi Bethel, of Franklin, entered pleas Friday. They’re scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 27.
Franklin police say Officer Steve Dunham found the boy by a drug store last month. The boy told Dunham he hadn’t eaten for days, so the officer took him to a restaurant.
Police say other officers went to the home and found four older boys living amid garbage and cat urine.