Police are now searching for a third suspect, Deandre Dorch, 36, after authorities located 8 children left unattended in a Bexar County, Texas, home last week—two of which, were tied up in the backyard.
His wife, Porucha Phillips, 34, was immediately taken into shortly after the children were found on charges of injury to a child.
The mother of the two children tied up outside, Cheryl Reed, 30, was arrested on May 5.
A neighbor called police at around 11:45 p.m. on April 29 to report what she believed was an instance of child abuse, after hearing a child crying for a long time.
What deputies found when they arrived, was quite shocking.
They knocked on the front door, but after no answer, they climbed on a ladder to look into the backyard—they spotted a 2-year-old boy chained to the ground, and a 3-year-old girl tied via dog leash to a door, according to a press release by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.
Inside the home, officers found six more children; ranging in age from 10-months to 13-years-old, all of which were found without adult supervision.
