TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo police have launched an Internal Affairs investigation after said officers responded to a west Toledo home where children were being kept in "atrocious" living conditions three times before the situation was ever reported.
A Toledo police spokesperson said officers were called out to the home once in June and once in July. The circumstances of those initial calls were not provided by Toledo police, but at those times, officers did not report the alleged child endangerment at the home.
It was not until Aug. 31 that an officer who responded to the Douglas Road home ultimately reported it. Two adults in the home, Jason Baran, 42, and Maryann Baran, 40, were both arrested the same day and charged with endangering children.
The internal investigation will seek to understand why officers did not report the initial alleged child endangerment.
According to court documents, the children at the home "spoke of molestation, unprovoked and unprompted" and did not have clothes, food, furniture or lighting in the apartment on Douglas Road.
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Documents also say the children "were covered from head to toe in dirt, mud, feces, etc.," "flies and gnats surrounded the children as they slept" and one child had circular burn marks on their wrist similar to cigarette burns.
Two of the children were of age to attend school but had never been enrolled, documents say.
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