Parents charged with endangering 4 children found covered in feces, without clothes and locked in Tyler’s bedroom

TYLER, Texas (KETK) — Two parents arrested in December for child endangerment in Tyler have been charged.

Katelynn Schengeli, 26, and Corey Evans, 27, were charged on March 3 with four counts of child endangerment.

Deputies from the Smith County Sheriff’s Office discovered four children in a residence at 6100 Rhones Quarter Rd, and they described it as “extremely dirty”. Some of the children were covered in feces and locked in a room with no clothes.

Deputies responded around 10:10 p.m. to help with an EMS call. An 8-year-old child had called because his mother was not answering.

UT Health EMS and its deputies attended the scene and spoke with Schengeli, the mother. She was reactive and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, law enforcement said.

Schengeli told deputies she had consumed alcohol earlier in the day. Emergency medical services told deputies they saw an 11-month-old baby crying in a crib next to the woman’s bed.

The infant was covered in feces that spilled out of his full diaper, according to EMS. They had to change the infant’s diaper and clean up the feces. Officials then heard screaming from another part of the residence. They found 4-year-old twin girls locked in a room with a large safe blocking the door.

The screaming child was asking the deputies for water. The other child was sleeping on the floor with no clothes on, and she was next to a dirty diaper. Officials immediately provided the two girls with clothes and water.

The 11-month-old was also the size of a baby between 3 and 6 months old, law enforcement said. The CPS removed the children from the house.