UPDATE: Angie and Kevin Walker recently pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of child neglect in Unicoi County General Sessions Court. In return for their plea, prosecutors dismissed three of the felony child neglect charges against each of them. A judge fined them each $50 plus court costs. Both will remain under supervised probation for a year.
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UPDATE: Kevin Walker turned himself in to the Unicoi County Sheriff's Office. Kevin and Angie Walker appeared before a judge for arraignment in a Unicoi County Courtroom this morning. The judge set bond at $25,000 each and ordered the couple to have no contact with their children until he says it is alright for them to do so.
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Unicoi County Sheriff's Department charged an Erwin couple with five counts of child neglect that Chief Mike Hensley described as one of the worst he had seen in 25 years of law enforcement.
Following up on a tip took deputies to 1210 West Park Street in Erwin. They found a mobile home infested by roaches and five children with heads shaved and covered by lice sores. They also found flies buzzing around a sink filled with dirty dishes.
The childrens' mother, Angie Walker, faces five counts of child neglect. She is two months pregnant and had to be treated for lice infestation before being locked up in the Unicoi County Jail.
Her husband, Kevin, has been charged and is expected to turn himself in today. The children were turned over to their grandparents.
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