Women Charged with Abusing 45 Animals, Endangering Children

Two Wentzville women were charged Thursday with child endangerment and abusing 45 animals. said their home in the 1700 block of W. South Service Road reeked of feces, urine and dead carcasses.

both of Wentzville, were charged with five counts of child endangerment and 45 counts of animal abuse. Gaspar is the children’s mother.

“Children were living in a home infested with fleas and wild rodents,” a Wentzville Police report said. Animal carcasses were inside and outside the home, and food for human consumption was left out so that rodents and animals could get to it, according to the report.

Wentzville Police said the women had 14 cats, 11 dogs, 18 birds, one pygmy goat and one rabbit, and did not provide adequate food, water, medical care or sanitary living conditions for the animals.

The home had “an overwhelming smell of feces and urine, with several piles of feces” inside the home, the report said.

Twelve officers responded to an animal abuse complaint at the home on May 8.

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