A Sumner woman was arrested May 9 and charged with two counts of child endangerment after Fayette County Sheriff’s Office deputies found her two children abandoned in “an unlivable home,” according to a sheriff’s office news release.
Jessica Lynn Mikesh, 36, is accused of leaving her children “to fend for themselves” in a home in Hawkeye, according to the release. Mikesh’s address on a criminal complaint is listed in Sumner, despite the home where she left her kids being listed in Hawkeye.
The sheriff’s office was asked to perform a welfare check at the home of a 7-year-old boy who had not been to school in a couple of weeks, according to a criminal complaint.
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When deputies arrived, the boy answered the door and told deputies his mother had left and he didn’t know where she’d gone. When asked if there was an adult present, he told officers a man named Brian Brainard was there.
Brainard had an outstanding warrant and was transported to the Fayette County Jail after talking with deputies.
Officers noticed a smell coming from the bathroom and discovered the plumbing was backed up and sewage water filling the toilet and bathtub. The boy and a young girl, whose age was not listed in the complaint, told deputies the bathroom had not worked for three months. The girl also told deputies that Mikesh left often and the kids didn’t know where she goes.
Mikesh came home while deputies were at the house. When asked about the kids missing school, she said it’s hard to get the kids ready for school and onto the bus, according to the complaint.
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services was called in, and the children were removed to a safe location, according to the release.
Sumner woman accused of leaving two kids in “unlivable” home
A Sumner woman was arrested May 9 and charged with two counts of child endangerment after Fayette County Sheriff’s Office deputies found her two children abandoned in “an unlivable home,” according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
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