VALPARAISO — A 21-year-old woman has been sentenced to probation after Valparaiso police found her last summer in an apartment with three young children, who were walking around in soiled diapers and suffering from extreme diaper rash.
The apartment unit was stacked with garbage, littered with the feces of a malnourished cat and swarming with bugs, police said.
Police said they also found marijuana and an officer was handed a drug smoking device by one of the children.
Aleyah Rebac
Aleyah Rebac had pleaded guilty to a felony count of neglect of a dependent, as well as theft from another case, in return for prosecutors dismissing other charges and agreeing to allow her to serve no further time behind bars, records show.
She was sentenced Friday by Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Clymer to nearly three and a half years of probation.
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Valparaiso police said they were called out July 2 to an apartment in the 1200 block of East Chicago Street in response to a disturbance and spotted the children wearing soiled diapers hanging nearly to their knees.
Garbage in the kitchen stacked about waist high and a crock pot were all swarmed by fruit flies, and feces was scattered on the floor from a malnourished cat, who did not have food or water, police said.
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Andrew Williams, then 22, blamed Rebac for neglecting the children and leaving them alone as she did drugs and drank alcohol while he worked, the incident report says.
Officials said they found the children suffering from extreme cases of diaper rash.
Both Rebac and Williams blamed the other for marijuana and drug paraphernalia found in the apartment, police said.
Rebac and Williams were taken into custody and each faced a felony count of neglect of a dependent, as well as misdemeanor charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
"A review of what data was retrievable indicates some emails deleted pertained to city business," according to a charging document.
The criminal case against Williams is still pending, records show.
The children were released to the temporary care of a family member and were to be relocated by the Indiana Department of Child Services, the police report said.
Police said they had responded 17 times last year to various calls at the apartment involving Rebac and Williams.
