Children rescued from padlocked, feces-riddled home in Washington

LAKE STEVENS, WA -- A woman looking for her car found three children living in deplorable conditions in a padlocked Washington home.

Sarah Parsley, who had hired a man living at the address in Lake Washington to fix her car's transmission, went to the house twice to unsuccessfully get her car back. On that second trip, she heard children yelling at each other inside the house.

Parsley called police and that's when officers found a 7-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother inside a home in deplorable conditions.

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When police searched the home further, they found the kids' baby brother in a locked upstairs room tucked under dirty blankets. The 11-month-old's body temperature had dipped to 94 degrees and he was unresponsive. He was treated for hypothermia at a local hospital.

As KOMO reports, the home had no heat or food, and car parts, broken furniture, trash, dirty diapers, animal and human urine and feces were scattered all over the house.

"I had no idea that that place was that destroyed and that those kids were living like that," Parsley told KOMO. "It's unreal to me that someone could do that to their children."

It's unknown how long the kids were alone, but the parents, Amanda Foley and Mark Dorson, both 33, had to be tracked down by police.

Foley and Dorson, both convicted felons, are now being held on 100,000 bond for investigation of felony mistreatment and abandonment.

In court Wednesday, KOMO reports Foley began to cry when she heard prosecutors tell the court what she had done.

Prosecutors say Foley, who also has a 10-year-old daughter in another woman's custody, admitted to being currently pregnant and a meth addict.

Police say the parents have had a long history of CPS complaints as well as health code violations at the home.

The children are now in protective custody.

Parsley tells KOMO she is grateful she prevented a potential tragedy. She said, "I may have lost my car...but in return I saved these kids."