Clark parents charged with abuse

Published 3:16 pm Friday, January 24, 2020

A Clark County couple was arrested Thursday after detectives found their child living in filthy conditions.

Angela Rose Teboe, 34, and Andrew J. Teboe, 32, are each charged with one count second-degree criminal abuse of a child 12 or younger.

Clark County Sheriff’s Office Detective Matt Eversole said Winchester Police Detective Matt Reed received an anonymous tip about a child possibly living in poor conditions.

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Eversole and Reed visited the residence on Hackberry Circle and were given permission to do a walk through of the home by Andrew Teboe.

Eversole said from outside he could smell a strong odor of ammonia and animal feces coming from the home.

Social Services was asked to come to the home and conduct the walkthrough with police.

“Based on the smell from the outside, we called Social Services,” Eversole said. “The father also had made comments that the home was in awful shape and hadn’t been cleaned in a while.”

Eversole said there was animal feces on the floor throughout the majority of the house, there was trash piled up in the living room and fly traps throughout the home were full of dead flies.

“One trap was so full not another fly would fit on it,” Eversole said.

In addition to a 6-month-old child, there were more than a dozen cats, two dogs and a ferret living in the home. The litter boxes were full, Eversole said.

“Basically, the residence was unbearable to walk through due to the conditions,” Eversole said.

Eversole said the parents said the home hadn’t been cleaned in about three weeks, but the conditions indicated it had likely been much longer.

Andrew Teboe told police he did not clean the home because his job requires him to work a lot of overtime and he was too tired to clean when he got home from work, Eversole said.

Angela Teboe is not employed, but said she spends all her time caring for the child.

According to Eversole, there were no signs of physical abuse to the child.

“Both parents agreed the living conditions were poor and they should have done better for the child,” Eversole said.

Both are being housed at the Clark County Detention Center, and a bond had not been set at press time.

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Whitney Leggett is managing editor of The Winchester Sun and Winchester Living magazine. To contact her, email whitney.leggett@winchestersun.com or call 859-759-0049.

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