Overview
- Detectives executed a search warrant on Aug. 14 at a Woodland Avenue home after a report from an online cloud-storage provider about uploaded child pornography.
- Investigators found three children under age 3 living in a basement contaminated with urine and animal feces, with the children sleeping on bare concrete.
- Iguanas, a bearded dragon, a turtle, and two dogs were found malnourished, and Lake County Animal Control took custody of the animals.
- Logan Jentink, 29, faces three counts of child endangerment, five counts of animal cruelty, and seven counts of possessing child pornography and remains in custody.
- Sandra Zaluski, 23, is charged with child endangerment and animal cruelty and was released with pretrial conditions, while DCFS placed the children with another guardian and conditions were too severe to deploy electronic detection dogs.