MAULDIN, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – The Mauldin Police Department said that two children are recovering after their parents were arrested for child neglect earlier this month.
On Oct. 7, police responded to a cardiac arrest call at a home on Cranberry Hill Circle in reference to the 3-year-old daughter of Ryan Addison Vassallo, 22, and Demarion Jaquez Estez Sloan, 23, being found unresponsive. Officers discovered that Vassallo’s and Sloan’s 1-year-old son was also in the home.
Officials said both children were taken to the hospital and turned over to the custody of the Department of Social Services (DSS), as they were emaciated from malnutrition and had wounds from a lack of proper care.
It was unknown if the children would be able to make a full recovery…