Heartbreaking: Policeman Helps Young Boy Who Was Trying To Sell Teddy Bear For Food

Publish Date
Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 2:00PM
Photo / WLWT5

Photo / WLWT5

A hungry 7-year-old boy in Franklin, Ohio, tried to sell his stuffed animal to get money for food.

According to WLWT5, police officer Steve Dunham discovered the child in front a CVS store on Sunday 7th August.

“It broke my heart,” Dunham told WLWT. “He told me he was trying to sell his stuffed animal to get money for food because he hadn’t eaten in several days.”

Dunham then took him to Subway, where they prayed and ate dinner together.

The child’s parents, Tammy and Michael Bethel, are facing child endangerment charges after authorities said they found four other boys — ages 11, 12, 15 and 17 — living in squalor.

According to WLWT, the home was filled with garbage, cockroaches and liquor bottles. Plus, the smell of urine was overwhelming.

Tammy defended her actions on the Franklin Ohio Police Department Facebook page:

“The cop just popped up on the wrong day I hadn’t had a chance to clean the mess that all them kids had made,” she wrote August 12. “BTW my kids didn’t even eat the food that the cops brought them because they had just ate.”

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