Ohio pair indicted for transporting kids in sweltering truck

ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man and woman have been indicted on child endangering charges for transporting five children in the back of a U-Haul truck on a sweltering August day.

Fifty-five-year-old Brian Dekam and 26-year-old Jamie Adkins, both of Cleveland, are free on bonds after being indicted Thursday in Lorain County.

Authorities say the pair was arrested Aug. 2 when they stopped at an Elyria gas station for drinks while traveling to Cleveland. Concerned Elyria city workers stopped the truck from leaving and found five sweat-soaked, flea-bitten children ranging in age from 2 to 15 inside the cargo box.

The 2-year-old was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. Temperatures that day reached 85 degrees.

Adkins told police she was baby-sitting the four youngest children.

Messages were left today with attorneys for Dekam and Adkins.