Overview
- Detectives acted on a tip from a cloud storage platform and executed an Aug. 14 search at a Woodland Avenue home in Fox Lake.
- Investigators found a family living in the basement, with three children under 3 forced to sleep on concrete covered in urine and animal feces, conditions that prevented use of electronic detection canines.
- Several malnourished animals — iguanas, a bearded dragon, a turtle and two dogs — were recovered from the basement by Lake County Animal Control.
- Logan J. Jentink, 29, was charged with three counts of child endangerment, five counts of cruel treatment of an animal, and seven counts of possessing child pornography added after a phone analysis; Sandra J. Zaluski, 23, faces three child endangerment counts and five animal-cruelty counts.
- DCFS placed the children with another guardian, and as of Friday authorities said Jentink remains in Lake County Jail pending a hearing while Zaluski was released with pretrial conditions.