Story Created:
Sep 5, 2006 at 8:46 PM CST
Story Updated:
Sep 5, 2006 at 8:46 PM CST
WICHITA, Kansas -- There are more allegations of children living in brutal conditions. This time, police found two kids living with 68 pit bulls inside one Wichita home.
All 68 pit bulls were taken from a northeast Wichita home Monday after SRS employees called police to check the welfare of an 11-year-old boy and five-year-old girl that were also living inside the house.
"Officers got a search warrant for the house. When the search warrant was served for the children, they located two children inside the residence living in squalid conditions. They also located 68 pit bull dogs which were inside the house," said Captain Darrell Haynes, Wichita Police Department.
The children are okay but are being kept in protective custody due to the poor living conditions. The dogs were living inside the house and in the backyard. Neighbors didn’t want to talk on camera but said they had no idea that many dogs were inside.
As far as what happens to these puppies, Animal Control is required to keep them until any pending legal case is settled, but pit bull’s are one breed the shelter cannot adopt out to the public so unless the dogs are returned to their owner or a rescue group comes to their aid, they will all be put down.
The father of at least one of the children -- 32-year-old Timothy Collins -- was booked into jail for resisting arrest and child endangerment.