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| Shane Cody Campbell and Shannin Lea Campbell |
According to our newspaper partners, the Longview News Journal, Shane Cody Campbell and Shannin Lea Campbell were arrested in November after Panola County Sheriff’s deputies found Shane Campbell’s mother and grandmother neglected at their home. The grand jury indictments were handed down Dec. 20.
The Panola County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call November 11 from a driver who was passing by and said a woman was lying in the front yard of a home on FM 959, police said.
Deputies arrived at the scene and found a woman on the ground on top of some trash; she was conscious but unable to speak and kept pointing toward the front of the house, police said. EMS was notified.
Deputy Jeremy Nagle knocked on the door several times, but no one answered, police said, so Deputy Philip Grimes gave the woman a pen and paper, and she wrote that there was someone in the house who needed help.
EMS arrived, and deputies entered the house and discovered another woman lying uncovered on the floor in her own waste, police said. She told the deputies there were other people in the house, police said.
Deputies knocked on a locked bedroom door, and Shane and Shannin Campbell opened the door, police said. Shane Campbell told deputies the woman in the front yard was his mother, who is deaf and mute, and the woman inside the house was his grandmother, police said.
He said he was caring for them; however, both women told deputies they had not received any medicine, nor had they eaten in days, police said. The deputies observed trash and human waste throughout the house and on the beds and floors — and the inside temperature was 55 degrees, police said.
As of the end of November, the two women were being cared for in a Longview nursing home.
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Panola County grand jury indicts Carthage couple on elder abuse charges
Good. More convictions send a clear message to future offenders.
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