KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A man and woman are facing charges after Knox County Sheriff’s Deputies discovered that seven children, between the ages of 1 month old and 7 years old, were found to be living in what the Knox County Sheriff’s Office called “deplorable conditions.”
According to KCSO, a person called 911 at approximately 7:23 a.m. Tuesday, reporting that two small children were standing in a wood line in the 3000 block of Clear Springs Road. Deputies determined that the children, who were estimated to be about 6 years old, were living at a nearby home.
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KCSO deputies and Family Crimes Unit detectives went to the home. Court records state that when they arrived, deputies found the door to the home open and that no one answered when they announced themselves. The deputies then entered the home and found “very deplorable and uninhabitable condition[s],” a General Sessions docket said.
In addition to the two children that deputies found near Clear Springs Road, the docket stated that they found five more children. The children, who ranged in age from 1-month-old to 7 years old, were taken to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital to be checked out…