Woman charged after officers find children sleeping on mattresses with ‘multiple cockroaches running underneath’ them in Fairmont house

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Woman charged after officers find children sleeping on mattresses with ‘multiple cockroaches running underneath’ them in Fairmont house

FAIRMONT, W.Va. (WBOY) — A woman was charged last week after officers found three children staying in a “filthy” house in Fairmont with cockroaches and no running water or food.

On Aug. 28, officers with the Fairmont Police Department received a call from CPS requesting assistance for a home check on Cedar Street because there were “cockroaches, no water, filthy house and random people in there using drugs,” according to a ********* complaint.

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Crystal Trimble

When officers arrived to speak with the guardians of the children, one of whom was identified as Crystal Trimble, 39, of Fairmont, but another individual said he had been watching the children and that Trimble “has been at a friend’s house all day.”

While the man contacted Trimble and tell her to return the house, officers also noted that three males were at the residence and left upon seeing law enforcement, according to the complaint.

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After Trimble arrived, officers “entered the residence to observe the conditions of living and speak with the children,” during which time they noted “multiple cockroaches and other insects running across the ground and on the walls,” officers said.

Officers also noted there was a “sink overflowing with ****** dishes that appeared to have been there for quite some time” with “bugs crawling on those”; they also recorded in the ********* complaint that there were two young children sleeping on “two small mattresses in the middle of the floor in the living room.”

Officers “observed multiple cockroaches run from underneath the children’s mattresses” and noticed that one of the children had “three wounds on his legs” which “appeared to be infected,” the complaint said.

During that time, CPS workers spoke with the children, who said that they have to “use a whistle to wake someone up when people are sleeping if they need something,” and one of the children said that “she gets smacked in the mouth […] for discipline,” according to the complaint.

A third teenaged child told CPS that “he hasn’t showered since the first day of school, which was approximately one week ago” because the “water has been shut off,” and that “there is no food in the residence”; he also told officers about “a closet with a bed in it that random people will sleep in from time to time,” officers said.

Officers spoke with another ****** at the residence who said that the children have to go to another house to shower, and that “they have had cockroaches and bugs inside their residence for approximately a month,” according to the complaint.

That individual also told officers that “the people that come over are friends and they just hang out,” but “denied and type of ***** use” and “stated he didn’t know who the people were at [the] house when [officers] arrived,” officers said.

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In that same conversation, the man said that “no one sleeps in the closet” where officers had located the “mattress and blanket on the floor,” according to the complaint.

The man also told officers that the child with the leg wounds has not been taken to a doctor “because he doesn’t have a ride,” officers said.

CPS spoke with Trimble, who stated that “she hasn’t been living at the residence for approximately 2 weeks,” and claimed “she had no idea there wasn’t any running water at the residence,” according to the complaint, but she also said that “she’s over to the house every day.”

She also said she “had no idea who the people are” that the other guardian “are letting watch over her children.”

Trimble has been charged with three counts of ****** child neglect. She is being held in North Central Regional Jail on $30,000 bail. As of Wednesday, the other guardian mentioned in the complaint, whose name is left out of this narrative, was not listed in the West Virginia Division of Corrections database.

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