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Grandmother, fearing for her grandchildren, leads police to filthy house
Dayton police were called to an elementary school Monday by the school’s principal. She reported that the grandmother of one her students had called fearing her granddaughter was being exposed to drugs at home.
Police checked in with the grandmother who explained her granddaughter told her she had seen her mother — the grandmother’s daughter — “putting medicine in her arm with a needle.” The grandmother agreed to meet police at the house where her daughter and grandchildren lived.
In their report, the officers described the appalling living conditions they found when they entered the daughter’s home. Along with the filth and clutter, police found several crack pipes lying around. No one was at home at the time. The grandmother had been caring for her daughter’s two children at her own home since Saturday.
Police contacted Child Protective Services, and a caseworker was dispatched. After showing the caseworker the house, the officers said they were removing the children. The caseworker agreed that the children should be officially placed in the care of the grandmother.
The daughter and the father of the children were notified of the removal.
Later Monday, the same two officers responded to a drug complaint less than one-half mile away from the daughter’s house.
There they found the daughter and the father of the children in the basement of a house on Linden Avenue with another man. Also found in the basement was a quantity of heroin. The other man said the daughter and the father of the children had nothing to do with the heroin, and the couple was released after questioning.
The daughter and the father of the children were not charged in either incident.
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