Carson City parents arrested after leaving three small children at home alone for hours in ‘filthy’ home

Carson City deputies arrested a man and a woman for felony child abuse, neglect and endangerment after they left their three small children home alone for hours.

According to the report, Roy Peabody Jr., 50, and Christy Youtsey, 33, were arrested at their residence located on Woodside Drive after deputies arrived just before 11 a.m. in response to an unattended children call.

An anonymous reporting party called and advised that three young children were running around the area with no parents in sight, and that two of the children were clothed in t-shirts and the youngest was completely naked.

Upon arrival, deputies located the three children running around a yard near the residence. The two older children wore t-shirts and the youngest was naked as described by the reporting party. The children could barely speak and could not tell deputies where their parents were. All children were “dirty and unkempt,” according to deputies.

Deputies escorted the children back to the residence and found the door was open. Deputies knocked and announced their presence multiple times to no response.

Deputies entered the residence and found it “filthy and smelly.” There was garbage piled up in the kitchen and food all over the floor. Clothes were piled up all over the living room and there were raw eggs smashed everywhere and liquid throughout the residence. Deputies noted that it smelled as if the liquid was a mixture of juice and urine.

Deputies went upstairs and found two bedrooms an a bathroom in “complete disarray.” There was food, garbage and liquid across floors that were “already sticky and dirty.”

Deputies called the Division of Child and Family Services for a social worker.

Several minutes later a “disoriented male” emerged from the garage where he was sleeping. He said he was the older half-brother of the children and advised he works night shift and sleeps during the day.

He stated he was upset to find out that the children were home alone and that no one had told him they were left unattended.

The man called his father, Peabody, and deputies spoke with him over the phone.

He stated he had left for work at 6:52 a.m. that morning after texting his girlfriend, Youtsey, who is the mother of the children, who said she was running late and would be home in ten minutes.

Peabody came home to speak with deputies and showed deputies the text messages between himself and Youtsey. The messages showed the two had argued through the night before Youtsey began testing “random, nonsensical words.”

At 6:45 a.m., Peabody texted Youtsey stating he needed to go to work and she said she was on her way. At 6:52 a.m., he texted again and she said that she would be there in five minutes.

Peabody said he left at that time and the children were still asleep when he left. There was no communication past 6:52 a.m. between Youtsey and Peabody.

A DCFS social worker arrived on scene and questioned Peabody, who made phone contact with Youtsey who seemed “shocked about the situation.” She said she had been with her friend all night and that morning who had been attempting suicide.

According to deputies, Youtsey “seemed to have no comprehension or concern about her children being left alone.” She said she was on her way home and would be there shortly.

An anonymous neighbor handed deputies a note which stated that Youtsey “does meth and has asked several times if the neighbor gets high or knows where to get any meth,” according to deputies.

Youtsey arrived on scene and was “very defensive.” Youtsey told deputies she had been at an unknown address with a friend who was trying to commit suicide, but that no prevention services were contacted and she did not know the friend’s real name.

Youtsey said she didn’t understand “why it was a big deal for the kids to be left alone for ten minutes.” Deputies pointed out it had not been ten minutes but in fact over four hours, and Youtsey deflected, stating Peabody shouldn’t have left them in the first place.

According to deputies, neither Youtsey nor Peabody could comprehend the danger the children were in due to multiple threats which exist to small unattended children. Youtsey said the oldest child was not enrolled in school and is receiving limited learning from “an app on her phone.”

Deputies took both into custody. Peabody seemed concerned the children would go to a foster home. Youtsey however was upset and continued to blame Peabody for leaving the children, asserting it was only going to be for a few minutes, and could not comprehend it had been over four hours since her children were supervised.

At the jail, Youtsey admitted that her friend was not suicidal but that they were using meth during the night and were sleeping it off that morning, and that she did not know how long she was passed out for or who was with her children at all, according to the report.

Each is being held on a $40,000 bail.

— A 35-year-old Carson City man was booked for driving with a suspended driver’s license, driving without proof of insurance, and driving with suspended registration.

Bail: $1,484

— A 41-year-old transient man was arrested for driving with a suspended driver’s license, driving without proof of insurance, and driving with suspended registration, as well as violation of a suspended sentence.

Bail: $5,484; $3,000 cash only

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