An upstate South Carolina couple has been charged with mistreating animals and neglecting their teenage daughter after the took off for Florida, leaving the girl home alone with a house full of dead animals.
Union Police officers were called to the home on May 27, apparently for the animals at the home. The found 17-year-old girl, who put her mother on the phone from Florida, and she gave them permission to enter the home, WHNS reported.
An arrest warrant says that officers found 39 cats and three dogs in the home, along with multiple dead cats and feces all over the home’s floors. Outside, 20 more dead cats were entombed in a freezer that was not connected to power.
Alicia Capps, 41, and Justin Capps, 34, were charged with three counts of ill treatment of animals and one count of unlawful neglect of a child. They were arrested on Tuesday after they returned from Florida and given $25,000 bonds.
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[Featured image: Alicia and Justin Capps/Union County Detention Center]
