Sutliff
JUNIOR – A Barbour County man and woman each face four counts of child neglect after four children, including a toddler, were found residing in a home full of dog urine and feces, police said.
Cheyenne Elizabeth Sutliff, 27, and Jimmie Lee Carpenter, 38, are each charged with four counts of child neglect, a felony.
Sutliff and Carpenter are both currently being held at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on separate $300,000 multiple 10% and surety bonds.
According to the criminal complaint, filed by Cpl. C.
Carpenter
B. Parks with the Barbour County Sheriff’s Office, on July 8, Parks received a direct complaint that was given to Patrolman Cooper of the Belington Police Department. The complainant told Parks that they had been approached by an elementary school-aged child who asked for food. When questioned if the child had eaten dinner, the child reportedly said, “No I can’t have food because I didn’t do my chores.”
The complainant told Parks they then asked the child about a bicep bruise, to which the child responded, “that is what happens when he doesn’t do his chores,” the complaint states. The child then spoke to the complainant about their house having “dog poop on the floor” and in the child’s room.
After receiving the address of the residence in Junior, Parks made contact with Carpenter, who gave Parks consent to enter and search the home, the complaint states.
Upon entering the living room of the home, Parks writes that he observed the floor to be “soaked and wet with dog urine” with puddles of urine and approximately six piles of dog feces in front of the TV.
Parks also observed that the floor of the living room was rotting due to the moisture of the urine.
According to the complaint, Parks then entered a bedroom to the left of the living room and found the room to be “extremely filthy,” with more dog feces and urine, trash and a large amount of empty beer cans.
When Parks entered the kitchen, he writes that he observed a “very large amount of dirty dishes… with rotten food in them” on the counter top, stove top and in the sink. Bugs were also seen among the dishes and one of the stove top’s burners was not covered. In the laundry room, Parks found moldy and wet clothes covering the floor with “a very large amount of fresh/moldy dog feces.”
When Parks went upstairs, he found a toddler along with a teenager, the complaint states. The toddler was “laying on the bed/moldy pillow” while the baby crib in the middle of the room was full of clothes. More beer cans were found near the toddler on the bedside table.
Parks also observed a garbage bag full of “used diapers/bloody toilet paper,” clothes on the floor with “large amounts of dog feces on them” and more empty beer cans next to another child’s bed. A “foul-smelling odor throughout the entire residence” was reported by officers on scene.
When Parks began exiting the home, Sutliff arrived at the residence, the complaint states. Parks spoke with both Sutliff and Carpenter, who advised that four children were living in the home.
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