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Tulsa, Okla., police say William Lewallen was arrested for child abuse/neglect.
A Tulsa, Okla., man was arrested after his 16-month-old daughter was found locked in a metal dog cage and covered with feces and his naked 3-year old son was found crying outside on a cold afternoon, police said.
William Todd Lewallen, 47, was arrested for felony child abuse or neglect. He was found in a stupor in bed with a third child, a 3-year-old boy who was also naked, Tulsa police said.
The three children were turned over to the custody of the state Department of Human Services.
Police made the disturbing find on Sunday afternoon when they responded to a neighbor’s call about a child crying outside, with the temperature in the low 40s.
“He was screaming, ‘Daddy, let me in! I’m cold!’” one neighbor, Matthew Testerman, told the Tulsa World.
Other neighbors took the boy in and warmed him up.
Arriving officers heard screaming and crying coming from inside the house. They looked through a small back window and saw a child inside a metal dog crate, Officer Leland Ashley with the Tulsa Police Department told local media.
Officers kicked open the back door. "Upon entry officers were immediately hit with the overwhelming stench of feces," Ashley was quoted as saying.
Police removed the 16-month-old girl from the kennel. She was wearing only a diaper and was covered in feces, police said.
Officers found the father passed out in a bed in the master bedroom, with another naked toddler asleep in the bed.
The father reportedly told police he took narcotic pain medicine, a muscle relaxant and an anti-seizure medication with a beer and then "laid down to take a rest."
"The defendant was unaware that a naked child had been locked out of his house and was outside in the 40 degree weather for over 20 minutes," the arrest report states, according to NewsOn6.com. "The screaming child in the dog kennel did not wake the defendant nor did the officers kicking the door down to rescue the toddler in the dog cage."
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The children showed no sign of physical injury, according to police.
Leland said the children’s mother was at work at the time and arrived home just as officers were preparing to leave.
Lewallen was being held in the Tulsa jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Records show he has been charged in eight felony cases in four counties since 1989, according to the Tulsa World. He has been convicted in the past of joyriding and possession of a precursor to manufacture a controlled drug – methamphetamine, according to NewsOn6.com.
The investigation is continuing, Ashley told NBC News on Tuesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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You people are just sick. This is your own flesh and blood. This whole country is just getting sicker and sicker.
John@
I used to think people were getting sicker until I looked at what was done in the past. Believe me people are a lot better now than before. Humans don't change or learn very fast.
warren... I was beginning to think that evolution was just a myth.
Here's what "Uncle Al" thought:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
John... "America may be unique as a country in that it went from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization." John O'Neill
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." Oscar Wilde
Who is John O'Neill?
you're both wrong of course. silly monkeys.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/07/barbarism-decadence/
Wow-thanks for the information.
That is a cool website. I'll have to remember to check my quotes from now on.
Hopefully these kids will find a loving couple that will give their love to these kids. Praying they don't get shuffled around throughout their childhood without finding that love.
Why wasn't the mother arrested? Social Services better not return these children to those disgusting animals! Poor, poor babies! Some kids are just born without even a chance! It makes me sick!
Those poor kids
Let's see how he'll like living in a cage. Where is Darwin when you need him most ?
Wow; these poor kids have had a miserable life. Hopefully someone can keep them together and adopt them; then just drop both mom and dad in the middle of the ocean.
There is a special place in hell for these type of people
Once again we see the inability to work simple birth control is NOT a predictor of excellent parenting skills.
Stupid should be a capital offense.
Don't forget to arrest the "mother"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow - sounds like some genes went bad on this couple.
The kids should be swiped away from them forever and they be fixed so that they never have any more children.
Oh joy, we allow people like this to breed. Don't think parenting classes would have helped either. Sad this goes on in an industrialised country. We should be able to do better. There should be legal castration and sterilisation for treating kids this way.
Sew us ugly mouth shut and cut off his dick and cram it up his rearend so he cannot produce anymore offspring. Problem solved!
Its a shame if Obama and the libs could have only convinced them to have an abortion. The man actions are just as gross as theirs.
Having children should be like getting a driver's license, a privilege, not a right. This is the first step to correcting the plague that is humanity.
This makes me so sick to think what these kids went through. Just kill this guy and get it over with and all the other people that do this. They are not worthy to have a life. It is getting worse by the minute. Oh and the mother should be charged also. I am sure she wasn't taking care of them either even if she was at work..
Twenty bucks this guy is a xenophobe, hate mongering Republican that locked his poor child in a cage because Romney lost.
He looks more like a guy that waits for his checks via the mailbox.....
No that is why he sends his wife to work. He waits for the DRUGS to kick in is all he waits for...
A Republican would be out working instead of passed out on a bed.
After these two "parents" serve significant jail time and the children are permanently taken away from them, the state authorities should strickly and closely monitor them both to ensure they are never to parent again. If they do, the child(ren) must be immediately taken away--forever.
Death penalty. No if, ands, or buts. There is no excuse, reason, or defense in the world that justifies this.
Lock up this hillbilly piece of s**t and throw away the key. (The bonus: one less tea party voter.)
Please, he's your prototypical Obama lover. Stupid, uneducated, ignorant, and living off tax payers $$$.
Wilmer, your obviously just making crap up about the Tea Party because you hate them. How old are you?
Ladies, take one look at this guy's pic and ask yourself, do I want THAT guy to be my baby's daddy?
Unfortunately he found some woman dumb enough to spread her legs for him.
that dude looks like he's 77, not 47
Cocaine is a helluva drug!
I can't believe there is enough meth or alcohol in the world for any woman to want to hook up with this thing.
Have you seen the wife?
What investigation? Take these pieces of rancid rat $hit out back and put them down like the rabid animals they are. If they insist on trying them, when convicted, tattoo them across their foreheads as child abusers and put them in general population, just make sure the "guards" are asked to look at the pretty sunset for a few minutes.
I very sincerely hope the children find a loving home that will turn their lives around.
Yeah, so this guy is pretty low...no doubt...but who are you to say that another person should be violently killed because they were an awful parent? This piece of trash deserves to go to jail...but when you say that he should be killed then your just as cold and emotionless as this bum is.
And this is why I suggest sterilization!! And this man is allowed to vote and drive a vehicle??
I love me some white-trash, drug-addict! I think I'll have me some babies with him then leave him alone with them while I go to work (aka Walmart, strip-club, bar or Cheap-cigarettes stores).
Let's hope these poor children are in better care now and that the mother is also held accountable.
Poor Babies!!!! I hope these "Parents" never see those kids again they don't even deserve to be called parents! Sicko's!
Tonyj77--he looks more like one of those democrats that get their entitlement checks and goodies from the government!!
... said the 400 lb. sow of a teabaggess (female teabagger, since you're undoubtedly too stupid to figure it out).
Well he does reside in a Red state, so make your own conclusions. I'm sticking with my assertion that he is a xenophobe, hate mongering, Republican.
Before you spout at the mouth about me being a Democrat or a welfare leech, know that I'm a registered Independent. I've worked for the same company for 20 years and make close to six figures. My house is almost paid off and I've never been on welfare, food stamps or any social service.
so because he's a drug addict and he lives in a red state he's a hate mongering Republican all of a sudden? what is that? logic?