uh the child has been injured 6month old oh has yes he has bites all over him F nearly chewed off been having F rap problem here I've got traps every got ba bo set everywhere Tred as best I can that doesn't happen and him not make a sound all night I said he sleeps through a there's a direct correlation between the Clint house in the presence of the RS direct correlation it's 7:00 a.m. in Ville Indiana where police respond to a home after a report of a child who get this was allegedly severely injured by [Music] [Music] rats hi hello [Music] I walk to found him this morning same one too start another C in a [Music] supervisor all night long been up [Music] we were but we that doesn't happen when a baby not make a [Music] sound come [Music] on I'm take no they need they need to stay here for right now need to St here so you're saying you didn't have a mark on it when you went to bed no marks on him at all Mark at all laid him down he was happy as could be he fell asleep we came in here to watch some TV what time was that no we put him to bed at what about 8 about 8 and then we just came in here we haven't heard anything since then I mean he was supposed to be at one time around like 10 or 11 I went there what's your name my name's Dela Thurman police identify the woman seen here as 25-year-old Delena Thurman described as the aunt to the injured infant and Mom of two other children living in the home seconds later Medics arrive he's got marks all over his fingers are like chewed off I don't know what happened they said it wasn't like that didn't hear you make a sound all night this bottle okay I've been having F rap problem here but I've got traps everywhere i' got ba BL set everywhere tried to best IDE that doesn't happen and him not make a sound all night to sit I know but I'm sorry let's go let's go get you checked out how about [Music] that police identify the man seen here as 31-year-old David shabam who called 911 after allegedly finding his 6month old child in a bassinet covered in blood I can't go with no not right now sit [Music] down go ahead yes there's four four other children what that work like you yeah exactly like oh you didn't make it sound the initial officer has heard enough and hands the Reigns in to another arriving [Applause] officer I people I'm going to lose it I got which one's the dad all right hey David the officer leads David outside and reads him as Miranda wres before asking him a few questions do you understand it right I do okay can you tell me what is going on this morning I went I put to bed last night at 8:00 okay uh Hur p a little bit about 10:00 G bot was absolutely normal he was great okay uh I was getting all the kids up ready for school this morning okay uh I went in there like I I've been doing went in there to to uh get him up and I see blood everywhere so i y him up I was like okay where's the blood coming from I worked for AMR for a while okay I was like where's blood coming from you know said did he have a nose bleed do he have an ear bleed I know out of blood and I see his fingers and I see that he he his fingers look like they've been chewed and okay what does he sleep in a crib or he has a a bassinet bassinet that's on the like stands up you know off the floor okay and it's in a corner of the room never had any any issues so you think the dog was to on the fingers no no uh we have a rat problem here I've been trying to get rid of them I've got Terminex here I've got bait blocks I've got traps okay all set and it's like okay can you show me the bassinet or if you you need to take do you smoke cigarettes or anything I do you do do you want a cigarette yeah the mom's in there with the children that's not that's that's my aunt his his aunt I mean okay uh my wife's like for right now okay David who shares the home with his wife 28-year-old Angel shown B says his spouse was away at the time of the incident investigators said the child had over 50 bites with some so bad multiple Bones on his hands were exposed a police report refers to the injuries as quote nearly fatal even requiring a blood transfusion for extensive blood loss moments later another officer takes us inside where we get a closer look at the home's alarming condition this where you yeah dog in there dog in the big dog big dog no no no this is so this is where you normally sleep [Music] I haven't used it in a minute so I don't know how good it is right now but we're about to see not too bad since I've been on sh Haven to use it at all [Music] here investigators spot the bassinet the infant was allegedly found in let's continue most have are in this Clos in this closet as the house tour continues the officer heads into the kitchen where conditions don't exactly improve not [Laughter] all just little dog quits freaking out chill out way here oh you're good I'm just trying to stay out of Y you in the house I've got I got pfle crossbow p and got that's just [Music] what is this a closet over here where I'm sorry the door that that's next to the back door oh no that goes to the basement you guys ever investigators hone in on a door that appears to be blocked by trap but that doesn't stop officers from checking it out by the way as you're watching this what do the body cams on Long crime prove maybe that the world is scary and unpredictable and sometimes you need a great lawyer it matters and that is where Morgan and Morgan the exclusive personal injury law firm of long crime comes in now they're not only you know a firm that gives us great merchandise like this hat look at this one but they're also a firm with over a thousand attorneys you know why because they win a lot in the past few months Morgan and Morgan secured a $29 million verdict for a bicyclist in Philadelphia a $2.7 million verdict for a car accident victim in Florida not to mention $5.6 million for a car crash victim in Georgia after insurance offered that client zero doar and even if you think your case isn't worth millions 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bottom of the stairs yeah I think that's what that is it's a bait block it says Terminex yeah as far as any other traps I haven't se seen any he said the main R problem is in that closet next to the the room where the child sleep who else sleeps in that room he does he do but he didn't David later tells police a pest control company had treated the house multiple times and the company allegedly noted months before that quote the presence of trash will attract rodents next the officer heads back upstairs uh there's one there there's one behind the couch uh I have one in the bathroom uh but they're all G now right yeah that's the thing and we've had that issue and I said something to about it and she said that they will drag themselves away from the trap or drag the trap with them or chew off whatever to get away from the traps I mean I'm on my S set of traps they just for how long they've been here for probably five six months I've beening turn next year would been the beginning of August okay so I've actually I've got it in txt out here just they text every time they come no yeah I mean that's all that'll be on the record we're just you know yeah if they're coming out and do I'm not I don't know anything about rats or I don't either I've never had that issue tell you I really have you live here I've lived here for 4 years and I didn't have a rat issue till last year your sister said your dog got one last time he had one and likes to get Scrat he had one and it went down B so so just fighting it yeah little dog hates RS this good thing you lived here four years and you said you start having the RO problem last year here yeah last 6 months I've had turn out of here I've got on a myly schedule and then who's your is this your DCS worker do you have a Cas my DCs Ono the last time he's been at the house like it would have been I don't know when he was here last yeah I know we have Max comes M comes out twice a week okay so we've got two workers with M come out twice a week M yeah and she was just here Saturday or Sunday okay so did she did they were they aware of the issue I mean I assume yeah m is where yes okay I I would never never guessed this issue well I mean mcy cheese and yeah that's my I don't know anything about no I don't either I'm not saying I wouldn't have guessed like I said I I've never I mean if I've seen one if I saw it i' I'm just saying everyone's got their own obviously can't just up and move or whatever so see a r you heard that right David tells police he has an ongoing case with the Department of Child Services the report show has been in place since 2022 where a third party family preservation service even visited the home twice a week later David is taken to an interview room where detectives get a chance to press him even more let's see what he has to say uh and then I usually stay up play with him a little bit make him bottle uh snuggle him and CU he's my he's my little buddy and I put him into bed uh right around 8:00 when I put him in bed is that typical yeah yes um uh he'd had green beans last night before and where does where does he sleep he sleeps in my room in a stand up bass B that bassinet yeah okay anybody else sleep in that room with you usually me and Angel are in there okay uh well with Angel being gone anybody else sleep anybody slept in there last night no just you two just I I wasn't even in there last night okay you slept on the couch right right last night I was up till 3:00 this morning TR to clean and and work in the house um I she's supposed to be coming home tomorrow evening so I'm trying to be a good husband and make sure the house is clean for her so you know she's coming home she's come home to clean house um did and I know I heard bits of a conversation with uh Delena but so at some point did uh so you're in bed at 3 on the couch around 10:30 he cried and she made him a bottle and took it into him he was fine she said he cried at 10:30 yeah it was right 10:30 11:00 he cried and she went in there took him bottle and he was perfectly fine and he's not one to wake up another night so he's a salid sleeper tonight usually very okay so he's a very quiet baby he doesn't does not cry much he only cries if he's hungry or he changed so let's move to okay so any other problems or now after went goes to bed at cries at 22:30 10:30 Delan takes him a bottle takes a bottle is uh any any other peeps out of during the night I hav heard I've run uh vacuum stuff off and on uh didn't hear him okay uh doors open all doors were open okay so even while you're vacuuming the door was open yes yes yes so you don't know if Delena uh Delena didn't shut the door when she went in there 10:30 to feed him after she fed him didn't shut the door anything like that uh I uh dis enagement stuff uh IR racum is pretty quiet it's not super noisy or nothing like I said he sleeps through a lot he can be in the same room like a vacuum he'll stay asleep he's very exit uh David claims to have been cleaning the home for hours the night before but that let's just say doesn't appear to add up with the home's condition the detective continues questioning the 31-year-old I'm not sure if I've told him about the rats but so but the rats are obviously the rats are obviously distinguishable from the mice they're much bigger yes and are these very large rats yeah I mean they're about y long that's about a foot yeah okay and I've actually uh I've got bbana that sits in the uh the bathroom you shot them before in the in the bathroom with the BB gun do you feel like your kids are are safe in that house with all those rats I mean obviously we found out today they're not no I really after today I really don't have you before today before today did you have concerns about I didn't because I I thought rats they they M say trash you know I never never would ever dream that they go after something live you know I never drink it you know let's one thing I asked you when I first got there on scene was about your open DCS cases M and you currently have an open DCS case about the cleanliness of your home right yes sir and what has been when was the last time neighbor over uh my linger uh is who who we go through for the DCS case okay and they were there Saturday or Sunday I want say Saturday that's the he with DCS no uh well DCS is is our ongoing case workk Okay ongoing magal is an agency that comes in yes is the agency that DCS uses okay and and we did this all voluntarily right right right yeah did because you know when we talk to DCS he goes are you open a case he said or you can do voluntary services and we did voluntary Services okay okay I know they give you those options sometimes you know so but specifically it was about the open DCS case it was about the cleanliness of your home yeah and organization skills okay so when I walk in your home today and I look in the kitchen the kitchen is just trashed I mean it's trash everywhere dog's been there for a couple hours you know but the uh kitchen uh you know the rest of the house I get picked up you know I picked up last night was cleaning and and you know kids they get toys out everywhere but the kitchen I've been working on remodeling like there was a pile of of the mice droppings and stuff that was in front of the oven the old oven when I pulled it out that's where that came from so I just started Remodeling on the kitchen okay next the detective decides it's time to be frank with David do you see the do you see the direct correlation because there is one there's a direct correlation between the Clinton C your house and the presence of the riots R correlation and when you when you allow you allow to get in such condition where it's not clean that's that's a basically a breeding ground for rats that's you know because you you keep the house clean and picked up and those things that attract rats you know I mean you can keep a real clean house and get bugs in I understand that I mean I we there certain times of the year you get I've got black ants in my home I mean you you can have all sorts of problems I mean it's just you know insects get in homes there's no no doubt about that but there's a direct correlation with the condition in your home in the r in the rra problem and I mean do you understand that I didn't realize that you know I knew you know the mice were you know I understood but when you know I was kind of talking to ter X lady and stuff she's like it's the neighborhood she said she goes she said I got houses in this neighborhood she goes what I treat she goes houses could be spotless and there's rats right I understand dirty she go there rats she goes I come up to the sewers I come up to the pipe she goes she goes this area is just she goes horrible David says he quote didn't realize the home's condition could attract rats before the detective reveals the scope of the situation I mean you know his fingers were nearly chewed off you know that and and dangling the bones you could see the Bon I literally I just seen us where the blood was coming from I just and know what else do it called yeah you did the right thing I I work on I used to work for AMR right right but there's difference between working on someone else working on your own kid oh W yeah I could imagine I could imagine and look look Mr shom I'm I've worked a lot of cases where parents intentionally harm their children throw them up against walls beat them with items punch them do horrible horrible things to their children okay and that's not the case here that's not the case but your home is unlivable it is for children children should not they shouldn't be living in your home and they're not going to be because it's just we don't want this to happen to another child I don't want it to happen to another child I don't right and the problem is the thing is the other children can escape these rats you're laying in a it's not like he can stand up and crawl out and get away from him he's yeah I've never had this issue with other kids David was charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in serious injury and two other counts of neglect of a dependent he was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 16 years behind bars but has since filed an appeal Angel was also charged in this case and ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of neglect of a dependent she was handed a 4-year sentence given credit for one year of time served and placed on probation for the remainder theena pleaded guilty to two count of neglect of a dependent and was sentenced to two years of probation