Re: 6-month-old Indiana boy nearly eaten alive by rats as he slept in his crib

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A 6-month-old Indiana boy was nearly eaten alive by rats that
bit him more than 50 times while he slept in his crib last week.

The boy’s parents, David and Angel Schonabaum, were arrested and
charged with child neglect after they awoke to find their infant
son drenched in blood last Wednesday, 14News reported.

The child’s aunt, Delania Thurman, who lived in the same home in
Evansville, was also arrested on the same charge.

The tot, who was covered in bites on his forehead, cheek, nose,
thigh, foot, arm, fingers and toes, lost a significant amount of
blood, according to the arrest affidavits obtained by the local
station.

His right arm had been gnawed by rodents from his elbow down to
his hand and parts of his fingers were bitten off so that his
bones were exposed, police said.

The infant was flown to a hospital in Indianapolis, where
doctors gave him a blood transfusion after his temperature had
dropped to 93.5 degrees, the station reported.

The family’s home on South Linwood Avenue — where the boy’s 3-
and 6-year-old siblings and 2- and 5-year-old cousins also lived
— was full of clutter, trash and rat feces, police said.

Evansville police Sgt. Anna Gray said the stomach-turning scene
was one of the worst child neglect cases she has seen in her
career spanning decades.

“It’s really hard to see that and sometimes it’s really hard to
maintain composure and be professional,” she told 14News.

The baby’s father told investigators that they began having a
rodent issue in March and that Terminix exterminators were
treating the house.

But the rats’ mauling of the baby was not the first time the
vermin have snacked on children in the home.

Two kids in the house told a teacher at their school on Sept. 1
that mice had bitten their toes while they were sleeping,
according to the affidavit.

Four days later, an employee with the Indiana Department of
Child Services visited the home, where Thurman claimed the marks
on her child’s toes were likely just scratches from the bed
frame, the news station reported.

DCS went over a safety plan with the family and a DCS
representative was scheduled to return to the home just one day
after the baby was bitten by rats.

A case manager had been visiting the home twice a week since
April due to past reports involving the children, including a
claim last year that a child was hurt due to a lack of
supervision and a claim in June that David Schonabaum had
physically abused one of the children.

DCS did not comment on the neglect allegations.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/22/indiana-infant-boy-nearly-eaten-
alive-by-rats-in-his-crib/