Boy, 4, escapes homemade cage covered in feces to find help as grandparents face child neglect charges

A four-year-old boy escaped a makeshift cage covered in feces to find help before his grandparents were arrested.

Deputies found the four-year-old in "a mixture of both human and animal feces," inside a residence in Hamburg, Iowa, the Fremont County Sheriff's Office say. They were first alerted to the situation after the boy -and another child - were seen outside the home - before police determined their state likely had been the result of being caged inside cribs.

Officers of the Fremont County Sheriff's Office discovered the four-year-old had managed to free himself from the makeshift cage which had been constructed using a portable crib with a baby gate zip-tied over the top. The boy had reportedly fought his way from the contraption and exited the home without waking anyone up.

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A second homemade cage was found in a walk-in closet at the Shenandoah home. Grandparents Elvin Leroy Culley, 78, and Martha Karen Perry-Culley, 61, have been arrested and accused of neglect or abandonment of a dependent person and child endangerment.

The boy's parents, Dustin Perry and Lindsay Hamilton, both 26, were arrested for child neglect and endangerment charges after the sheriff's office said a 4-year-old boy escaped from a cage, reports 1101Now.

Police also removed other children from the home. Deputies allege Perry, 26, and Hamilton, 26, left their kids with relatives with instructions to keep the 4-year-old, who has developmental disabilities, in "a makeshift cage."

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In a separate case of child neglect, an Indiana mom and father are reportedly facing charges over the death of their diabetic daughter who they 'failed to treat.'

12-year-old Alice Ruby Bredhold tragically died on July 4 after being found dead on her bedroom floor at the family's home in Evansville, according to an affidavit obtained by NBC affiliate WFIE .

According to reports, investigators found that the girl suffered with diabetes and her parents allegedly did not help to maintain her lifelong disease. Cops say that the family were contacted as a result of the girl's blood sugar levels testing high while at school by the state's Department of Child Services.

According to the Courier & Press and WEVV on one occasion a nurse said that Alice had a blood-sugar level that was "life threatening." She is said to have come to school with a high blood-sugar level 34 times since January according to investigators.