Parents of boy who came to elementary school with cockroaches in his backpack will have time to call the exterminator

The parents of a West Virginia lad who came to simple school with bugs successful his backpack volition debar jailhouse time.

Dwayne Hickman, 37, and Dorothy Hickman, 29, some pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of child neglect and were sentenced to 2 years of probation followed by 2 years of unsupervised probation. Both parents besides received a six-month suspended jailhouse sentence. As Law&Crime antecedently reported, unit astatine the simple schoolhouse that the Hickmans' children attended expressed concerns to police astir the children's well-being. Police said unit recovered cockroaches successful the son's backpack. The girl asked her teacher if she could lavation her "very dirty" clothes.

On Feb. 10, a teacher from the Doddridge County Early Learning Academy successful West Union, West Virginia, a municipality astir 30 miles westbound of the state's borderline with Ohio, contacted constabulary and said that a kid had bug bites connected his "face, hands, and bottom." The boy's information and the girl's petition that a teacher lavation her apparel led the Doddridge County Sheriff's Office to interaction Child Protective Services (CPS).

When officials from CPS visited the Hickmans' home, they reported "extreme deplorable surviving conditions" and took the children retired of their parents' custody. The children's existent custody presumption is unknown.

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Dwayne and Dorothy Hickman were each charged with 2 counts of gross neglect of a kid creating a important hazard of decease oregon superior bodily wounded and arrested connected Feb. 12.

On April 28 and May 1, Dorothy and Dwayne Hickman, respectively, entered blameworthy pleas to 1 number of kid neglect.