SUNBURY – In Sunbury, three children were taken into custody by Northumberland County Children and Youth Services after a 3-year-old was found, alone, walking along a city street. That led to a home where police say a family was living in deplorable conditions.
According to court papers released by Sunbury police Tuesday, the children, ages 3, 6 and 9, are now in county custody. Charged is their mother, 32-year-old Natalie Grubbs, of 114 Fairmont Avenue. Her 3-year-old was found by local residents on Eleventh Street in Sunbury.
City police and state troopers were involved in the initial investigation. They say the family lived in a home filled with filth and garbage, had strong odors and had uneaten food left out. The Sunbury Code Enforcement Office posted the home ‘unfit for human habitation’ and no one can live there temporarily.
Grubbs is facing three counts of endangering the welfare of children, for allowing a child to live in unsafe conditions and for allowing the 3-year-old child to leave the home unattended.
