Deputies search a Northbridge home, find children and poor conditions.
Written by Jon Dell and Jeremiah McDaniel
[view:node_ad=5]Saturday evening, Santa Clarita Sheriff’s deputies responded
to a home in the 23000 block of Summerglen
Place in the Northbridge area of Valencia, according
to Lt. Tom Bryskie.
The owner of the home, Carol Hershey, had reportedly violated a custody
agreement with her ex-husband and would not disclose the location of their two
daughters ages 12 and 13. Hershey claimed to be her sister Kathy and had no idea of the children’s location.
Hershey’s real identity was discovered which
prompted responding deputies to arrest her for interfering with a law
enforcement investigation.
Deputies then searched her five-bedroom home and located the children in the
closet of the master bedroom. They also found that Hershey had rented out four
of the five bedrooms to at least eight people. She and the two daughters were
living in the master bedroom, which deputies said had dirty clothes and
property piled throughout.
Hershey was arrested on suspicion of child concealment and child endangerment
for the conditions of the home. She is being held in lieu of $1 million bail,
and is scheduled to appear in Santa Clarita’s Superior Court tomorrow.