LAKE STEVENS — Multiple felony charges were filed Friday against two parents whose children were found in squalid conditions in Lake Stevens.
Amanda Foley and Mark Dorson, both 32, were each being held on $100,000 bail. Prosecutors have charged them in Everett District Court with criminal mistreatment and abandonment of a dependant person.
Foley and Dorson were arrested Tuesday at a Child Protective Services court hearing. Police believe the children, ages 7, 3 and 10 months, had been in the filthy house alone for days. There was no food. The infant reportedly was dehydrated and hypothermic. Lake Stevens police officers found him alone locked in a room, wearing a heavily soiled diaper.
The older children attended an elementary school and preschool in Lake Stevens. School staff had made CPS reports on Oct. 2, Dec. 9 and Jan. 30 related to the children missing school, and the older girl’s health, hygiene and overall well-being.
CPS has declined to discuss those reports.
Prosecutors have two weeks to refile the charges into Snohomish County Superior Court, where felony cases typically are resolved.
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