This composite image from photos provided Oct. 25, 2011, by the Lincoln County, Neb., Sheriff’s Office shows, from left, Ashly Clark, Bryson Eyten, Samantha Eyten and Lacy Beyer. Four children were removed from a filthy trailer home Monday, Oct. 24, in North Platte, Neb., including two who’d been kept in a wire dog kennel, according to North Platte police. The four adults living in the home were arrested and jailed on suspicion of first-degree false imprisonment and felony child abuse. (AP Photo/Lincoln County Sheriff)NORTH PLATTE, Neb. – Four children were removed from what authorities described as a filthy Nebraska trailer home where a 3-year-old boy and his 5-year-old brother were kept in a wire dog kennel, police said Tuesday.
North Platte officers went to the home late Monday after receiving a call from someone asking that police check on the welfare of the children living there, police Lt. Rich Hoaglund said. When officers went inside, they were met with the stench of urine and found trash and animal feces throughout the home, Hoaglund said.
An officer soon found two boys, ages 3 and 5, in a 30-by-42-inch wire dog kennel.
“They had a small child’s mattress in there, and that’s where both kids were sleeping,” Hoaglund said. “The gate on that door was wired shut.”
The children’s mother, 22-year-old Ashly Clark, told officers she put her boys in the kennel at night to keep them from climbing out of the trailer through a window, Hoaglund said.