An Evansville man is arrested, his children removed from his custody, after police discover his home is filthy.
Police say James Mitchell was arrested on charges of felony child neglect and receiving a stolen gun. Officers were called to Mitchell's home on Savannah Road Sunday night, after someone reported Mitchell had a gun and wouldn't let people out of his house.
Police apprehended Mitchell without incident; but inside the home, they found four children, ages six to eight months, living in squalor.
The children have been placed with family members.
Mitchell remains in the Vanderburgh County jail.
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It's intereting to me that, while he had an illegal gun, the reason they took his children away was the squalor. What does it say about our society that when a man has a gun, and won't let people leave the house, they don't take his children away because he's a gun-weilding maniac, but because his house is filthy? To me, it says that the people in social services are more worried about squalor then they are about crazy people with guns.
Are you at risk of having your children taken away because of your squalor?
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