A Joplin couple is being held in the city jail for allegedly endangering three children by having them in a residence filled with cockroaches, trash and animal feces, according to documents filed today in Jasper County Circuit Court.
Victoria Elizabeth Word, 32, is charged with three counts of child abuse or neglect and is being held on a $75,000 surety bond or $7,500 cash.
Conditions of the bond for both is that they have no contact with the children unless authorized by Juvenile Court.
From Derek Word's probable cause statement:
Upon my arrival, I contacted Derek Word {who was} extremely intoxicated with his three juvenile children, V1, V2, V3 all asleep inside. At this time, Mr. Word was the only adult at the residence.
The residence was in complete disarray and covered in trash, animal feces, cockroaches and children's toys. The residence smelled strongly of animal and human urine/feces causing a sense of nausea and disgust.
V1 and V3 were both located in a shared bedroom that completely covered in trash with no room to step. When items on the floor were moved cockroaches would scurry over Officer's boots.
Mr. Word at one point had to be assisted to his feet and supported to a patrol car proving that he was not capable of caring for any of the juvenile children in the house.
No probable cause statement had been filed in Victoria Word's online file, but the charging information says she left the residence in the middle of the night leaving the children alone with no way to contact anyone in case of an emergency and indicated she was the one who left the child in the locked room.
8 comments:
There is no reason or excuse to live in that type of filth and squalor, especially trying to raise children in it. These two Derek Lee Word and Victoria Elizabeth Word are perfect examples of living on the government rolls, lacking any type of self-respect while always having enough money to buy cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs, all the while they are abusing, neglecting, and forcing their children to live worse than animals. Children are God's Gift you need to treat them as such. Children deserve to be your first priority, not an afterthought or an additional paycheck from the government. Hope these 3-children find the love and respect they deserve. When will parents start understanding that simple concept, your children come first.
Amen to that
Agree 100%
I don’t understand what’s wrong with people treating children like this and there’s more and more of it all the time. It seems prayers for those children.
No excuse for the nasty living conditions you can be poor and clean, we were
Why are these kids just now being saved? No friends or kin folk have seen this and reported it? CpS has been involved w these kids for 4 yrs and they dont check on them regularly? Great example of of our Government programs that are placed for situations as these and they are failing to protect our children. Not all people are nice and love their own children. Some people are evil and demonic and get their thrills abusing and being mean to their children. Thats just the truth of the matter. So sad that those babies are probably the only ones that love those people.. pray for these little ones..God will get them if the law fails too..
Very well said!!
In reality, these 2 will have clean beds, 3 meals daily and medical. Not right!!
What I'd like to know is where was DSS in this matter?! I get hotline because my kids get sick or suspended so they miss school and I'm getting hotline for neglect or because my 3-year-old who is autistic doesn't like to wear clothes I get hotline yet people like this living in filth are not being hot lined are you serious? I tell you the system is definitely broken and I feel for these poor children there is absolutely no excuse yes I smoke cigarettes but my kids never go without what they need. And the only reason their rooms are filthy is because they're too damn lazy to clean them when I'm cleaning the remainder of a three bedroom apartment with two bathrooms I have pets I don't have feces laying around! I'm on disability as well because I'm severely disabled and yet have four children and they never go without the things that they need I also know where to get help if needed so there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever except for bad parents bad people absolute bad system and then just to allow them to get slapped on the wrist for this type of behavior absolutely not but like another person commented if they go to jail then they get three square meals even if they're not the greatest a day clean place to sleep free medical it's absolutely disgusting throw their asses outside in a pile of animal feces put them in a cage that's where they belong swinging from a tree no child should ever have to suffer in situations like that I still can't believe I allowed myself years ago to live in something like this because we had nowhere else to go and the person that we lived with allowed their place to be like this eventually I got my crap together and sent my kids to stay with a friend and I was on the street it was better than living in filth!
I agree where was the system family friends somebody could have saved these babies from this and no one helped them this world is going straight to hell
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