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On 20 Jul 2023, Positron <nowomr@protonmail.com> posted some news:u9bjnj$2otp7$2@dont-email.me:

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out to black males for rent money.

A Wisconsin mom is facing a slew of felony charges after her two kids
were seen wandering the streets completely naked, covered in blood,
bruises, and excrement.

That’s according to a criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County
Circuit Court, which says Katie Rae Koch, 34, kept the pair, ages 7 and
9, locked in a squalid bedroom with boarded-up windows for years on end
and never enrolled them in school. Neither child is toilet trained,
neither can read or write, and one of the two is unable to form full
sentences, the complaint states.

When the youngsters managed to escape to the outside world last week,
one neighbor told police they spotted the older boy “walking on the
sidewalk like a ‘caveman.’”

Another neighbor said the two were clad only “in diapers, running from
home to home,” and that they had no idea Koch even had kids, according
to the complaint. Cops found the walls of the boys’ living space smeared
with feces, which Koch at first tried to pass off as “clay, paint, and chocolate,” it alleges.

Koch’s live-in boyfriend, Joel Manke, 38, is also charged with various
crimes related to the appalling conditions at the three-bed, one-bath
home, which prosecutors described as “like something out of a horror
movie.”

Koch’s ex, Erik Strasser, told The Daily Beast that he was still
processing the news.

“At the moment, I have no comment,” Strasser said Tuesday in a text
message. “I need to talk with my [current] wife before we proceed with
any statement on this unfortunate matter.”

Reached by phone, Koch’s father, Jeffrey Koch, hung up without
commenting on the situation. Lawyers assigned to represent Koch and
Manke, whose LinkedIn profile says he works as a maintenance technician
for an area frozen pizza purveyor, did not return voicemail messages
left for them on Tuesday.

Authorities first learned of the children’s plight on July 13, when a
concerned resident called 911 after spotting “two naked juveniles…
walking around the neighborhood with blood on them,” according to the complaint. The caller said the duo had “bruises and red marks on their
thighs,” it says.

When the first officer arrived, a group of neighbors pointed them to
Koch’s home, saying she had “violently dragged” one of the two kids back inside. The officer “walked towards the house and from the outside heard
what he believed to be a quieted cry or whimper,” the complaint states,
noting that Koch soon exited the residence through a side door,
appearing “flustered and anxious.”

“Koch was continuously pacing and swaying her body and appeared
agitated,” the complaint goes on. “Koch’s appearance was overall
disheveled. Koch was on the phone with a male and stated, ‘I’m standing
outside in the drive way [sic] right now, are you almost home so you can
help explain what’s going on, I love you, I love you.’”

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Christine Eder, the neighbor who initially called police, told local ABC affiliate WISN, “I'm not going to ever forget the way they looked when
they came running out of that house… They didn’t have any clothes on.
None. Their hair… looked like it had never been brushed. Their faces was
[sic] pure bewilderment. They were just looking all around. I don’t
think they’d ever been outside before.”

Upon entering the home, encountered a “terrible hoarding situation,” the
floor barely visible beneath all the detritus, according to the
complaint. It says Koch attributed red marks all over the 7-year-old’s
body to him and his brother smashing a window before running away.
However, the officer on the scene remarked in the complaint that he
didn’t notice any lacerations that seemed to have been caused by broken
glass. As additional officers arrived, Koch gathered clothes for the
children, who were then removed from the residence. A rabbit and three
dogs were also reportedly taken away by authorities.

“I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m so afraid,” Koch repeated over and
over, the complaint states.

Koch, who denied abusing the children physically, walked officers
through the home, which the complaint says was literally uninhabitable.

“The smell of urine and feces filled the residence,” it continues. “Next
to the bathroom was the children’s room. There was a mound of trash and
garbage outside of the children’s room. The door was half way opened and
a greater amount of urine and feces smell became present as [officers] approached the room. The children’s room had feces smeared all over the
walls of the room. There was also a latch to lock the door from the
outside of the kids’ room.”

When Manke showed up a short time later, he explained to police that he
had lived in the home since 2007 and that Koch and her boys moved in
about three-and-a-half years ago. He said he considered himself a
stepdad to the kids, according to the complaint. Manke also told cops
that he boarded up the children’s bedroom windows in an attempt to “keep
[them] from bothering the nosey neighbor,” it states. The latch on the
door was to prevent the kids from “wandering due to what Manke called
‘their autism,’” Manke allegedly said.

He admitted he knew the conditions in which the children were being
forced to live were very wrong, but that he had learned to “pick his
battles” with Koch, according to the complaint.

“Manke stated that he never contacted police or schools to report the
children because he doesn’t believe in doing that to family members,” it continues.

A witness, identified in the complaint only as “MDS,” told police he got
home from work at about 1 p.m. on the day of the incident. Roughly two
hours later, MDS said he saw one of Koch’s children standing on the air conditioning unit outside their bedroom window. They
then—unsuccessfully—tried to climb the fence into MDS’ yard, after which
they ran to the front of their own house and started “making their way
down the street.”

MDS said he hadn’t seen the boys outside the home in at least three
years, and that he had complained to Koch about the sealed bedroom
window being “wrong,” according to the complaint. Further, the complaint
says MDS claimed he had “concerns about if the kids eat because he never
sees groceries being brought into the home but frequently sees Manke
bringing in 2 to-go containers for himself and Koch.”

Under questioning by police, Koch allegedly confessed that her kids had
never in their lives gone to school. However, while claiming she
homeschooled them, Koch also conceded that she simply gave them Hooked
on Phonics workbooks and tablets with “educational apps” to use in lieu
of actual curricula, the complaint says.

“Koch stated that [the younger boy] cannot write but can trace letters
and read ‘small words,’” according to the complaint. “Koch stated that
[the older boy] is learning how to put sentences together in proper
form.”

When police told Koch that her kids’ heads had been shaved at the
hospital because their hair was completely matted with feces, the
complaint says she responded, “Yeah, whatever they need to do,” and
contended they needed haircuts anyway. They had both been bathed five
days earlier, Koch claimed, but she hadn’t washed them as thoroughly as
she should have, according to the complaint.

“Koch admitted that the home is not habitable,” it concludes. “Koch
wrote a 3 page apology letter to the boys.”

In court on Monday, Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Mallory
Davis told the judge, “These children have been horribly damaged from
their mother’s actions. They are completely uneducated. They are not
potty trained, even at their ages. They are, essentially at this point,
unable to function in society.”Koch remains detained on $30,000 cash
bail, which her public defender said in court she could not post.
Manke’s bail was set at $6,500. Each is charged with two felony counts
of chronic neglect of a child and false imprisonment; Koch is also
facing two additional misdemeanor counts of neglecting a child.

If convicted, Manke faces a maximum of nearly 44 years in prison. Koch
also faces 44 years, plus an additional 18 months on the two misdemeanor charges. They are both due back in court on July 26.

https://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-cops-discover-house-horror-211002523.htm
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