A young Boise, Idaho, couple — 29-year-old Ryan Kyser and Meghan Nadorff, 27 — found themselves under arrest earlier this month after police found that their housekeeping skills were so incredibly deficient that the four-year-old boy living in their apartment was actually in “imminent danger” from being surrounded by horrifying piles of filth and excrement.
Police did not say whether the four-yearold was the couple’s own child, or how — or if — he was related to Kyser and Nadorff.
In August, Ada County Sheriff’s detectives got a tip that the boy was not being properly treated But that tip did not prepare the investigators for what they found when they knocked on the door of the couple’s Boise apartment.
They first became suspicious that something was seriously wrong when Nardoff and Kyser agreed to meet with the investigators but refused to let them into the home, according to a report by KTVB-TV. That refusal, and possibly something said or done by the couple in their initial meeting with Ada County detectives, gave the police a bad feeling about the boy and his well being.
So, regardless of the couple’s wishes, on September 15 the detectives paid a visit to Ryan Kyser and Meghan Nadorff at their residence after all.
That’s when they realized why they felt uneasy in the initial meeting with the couple.
The apartment was strewn with garbage, refuse and other clutter, the sheriff’s department reported. But that wasn’t even the worst of it. The whole place of animal urine and feces, and indeed, piles of animal excrement littered every room in the place — simply allowed to sit there without anyone cleaning it up, not to mention why pets were allowed to repeatedly relieve themselves on the floor in the first place.
The four-year-old boy’s own bedroom was no different. Feces and litter filled the room.
The kitchen sink was piled high with unwashed, used dishes. Finally, police found two open bottles of booze within easy reach of the small boy.
That’s when the detectives made their determination that the boy was in “imminent danger.” They called in the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare whose agents immediately removed the little boy from the hellish home and took him into state custody.
Police issued warrants for the arrest of Ryan Kyser and Meghan Nadorff.
The Idaho couple, however, are just the latest in what appears to be an epidemic of parents and other adults keeping helpless children in homes or conditions that are unfit for habitation.
Earlier in September when police in Bristol, Virginia, knocked on the door of Bryan and Melissa Harr, the dwelling appeared more or less normal and tidy. Except for one problem.
The smell.
A stench that Bristol Detective Robin McCoy would later describe as “horrific” filled the home. But McCoy, doing her job, braved the stifling odor, entering the Karr house to look for the source of the sickening smell.
She finally found it — upstairs in a locked bedroom occupied by three children, ages nine, 10 and 17. The oldest boy was both autistic and afflicted with cerebral palsy. Human feces was piled and spread all over the floor and on the mattresses, which were all the furniture the children had.
Read full details of the Harr case as reported by The Inquisitr at this link .
In August, a young couple in Indiana — Shaun and Ashley Horlander, both 23 years of age — were arrested when officers found their three kids, ages six, three and four, imprisoned in a stifling hot room with no air conditioning and piled with dirty diapers and other refuse.
The Horlanders told investigators that they were forced to lock the kids away to prevent them from stealing food out of the refrigerator. But police found no food in there anyway. But they did find beer and wine.
Full details of the Horalander case can be read in the Inquisitr report at this link .
Ryan Kyser and Meghan Nadorff turned themselves in to police on Saturday, September 19. According to The Idaho Statesman newspaper, they were charged with felony injury to a child and released on $5,000 bond.
[Image: Ada County Sheriff’s Office / Bristol, Virginia, Jail / Clark County Sheriff’s Office]