Two people have been arrested for child abuse charges in Clark County.

The arrest citations for Anna Camacho and Juan Maldondo say that they are involved in tying up Camacho’s children by their necks, heads, and wrists, and hitting them with a belt and cell phone charger. The two boys are 6 and 9-years-old.

The abuse allegedly occurred on the enclosed front porch of their residence on Paris Road in Winchester.

The children were forced to stand on their tippy toes while being hit, according to the documents.

On May 12, the children reported it to their school counselor who did a Social Services referral.  The arrest citation said that both kids had visible bruises on their arms and legs and that the 6-year-old told police he had bruises on his bottom but would not allow social services of officers to witness them.

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Camacho told social services that she witnessed the two children being tied up by her boyfriend, Maldondo, but failed to stop him.

Both are charged with assault 4^th degree (child abuse), criminal abuse 1^st degree, and unlawful imprisonment 2nd degree.

Sheriff Berl Purdue tells LEX 18 that Social Services did not contact the Sheriff’s Office until two weeks after the children reported the abuse to school staff, causing a delay in the arrests.

Social Services said that they will not comment on the situation just yet.

An infant girl was living at the home. The Sheriff’s Office said that she is fine, but all three children are in custody of the state waiting for relatives to be found.

The man who led authorities on a wild foot chase earlier this year entered a guilty plea in court on Friday.

Timothy Kanatzer, 27, said he’s ready to put this behind him and start over.

Kanatzer says drugs were the reason for his behavior on March 14.

He escaped from custody after being arrested on an outstanding warrant. He busted out a window of a deputy’s vehicle, then ran through an insurance office, went out a window, and finally scaled the wall at Cheapside before being caught.

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He took a moment to explain his actions to the court saying he’s ready to move past it and hopes to one day get his job as a truck driver back.

“I was high to be honest,” he said. “I was using at the time. I kinda panicked because they were taking me to jail for failure to appear.”

Kanatzer was sentenced to four years, all to be served at the same time.

The Commonwealth’s Attorney also recommended he pay restitution to the sheriff’s office.

The woman who pleaded guilty in a child abuse case last year is back in jail, accused of violating her probation.

Deputies say last August, they found Andrew and Kimberly Powell’s three children living with feces, bugs, and filth.

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The State Journal reports that last week, Kimberly Powell tested positive for crystal methamphetamine and prosecutors filed a motion to revoke her probation.

Powell may also face additional charges from an incident where she was taken into custody last week.

The North Ridgeville Police Department released new information on Tuesday after a body was found at a home last week.

Officers, with the help of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, searched a property on Jaycox Road near Shawn Drive on Friday. Police said during the prearranged search, they discovered a body in an outbuilding.

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The deceased was identified as 60-year-old Harold Litten Jr., who lives at the home. The department marked him as a missing person on April 20.

According to North Ridgeville police, Litten’s death was ruled a homicide.

Officials in Clay County continue to search for two men who escaped from work release.

Clay County Detention Center officials say that Thomas Patterson and Darrell Foutch were mowing at Gossen Cemetery on a work release and never returned.

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Both were serving time for parole violation.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call the detention center at (606) 598-2133.

A death investigation is underway in the Canyon Falls area off Highway 2017 in Lee County.

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KSP tells LEX 18 that just before noon the received a call about a possible dead man outside of a home on Decoursey Hollow Road. They say that a fight had happened outside of Daniel Noble’s home and one person was fatally injured. That victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

State police located and arrested 34-year-old Daniel Noble. He has been charged with murder and is in the Three Forks Regional Jail.

The woman convicted of running over a police officer in Bullitt County has been sentenced.

Officer Rocco Besednjak suffered serious injuries to his neck and spine when he was hit and dragged by Tiara Litsey.

Litsey blames a psychotic episode brought on by her ongoing use of crystal meth.

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During the sentencing Wednesday, she apologized to the officer and his family. Officer Besednjak is retiring with disability because he can no longer work.

“When I was told by my doctor that I couldn’t be a police officer anymore and he recommended I put in for disability, it really hurt.  But there’s always new things coming out in medicine, so I try to stay optimistic that there will be a way for me to either not have any more pain or to lessen the pain,” he said.

Litsey was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

A man is accused of raping underage girls and luring them with drugs.

Police said they believe it happened over a period of 18 months.

Stephen Kasey, 47, is accused of inviting teenage girls to his La Grange home and offering them drugs from November 2015 until April of this year.

Police said he would build relationships with them and then persuade them to have sex with him.

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One alleged victim told police she tried to leave Kasey’s house in January, but he burned her with cigarettes and raped her.

Kasey faces more than a dozen serious charges.

His 18-year-old son and co-defendant, Tristen Kasey, was arrested Tuesday night for tampering with physical evidence and possession of child porn.

A man was picked up on an indictment warrant Wednesday in connection to an arson case last October.

Investigators said Eric Girtley set fire to a couch at an apartment on Deepwood Drive last year.

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People in neighboring apartments saw smoke and ran to put it out, but police said Girtley fought with them.

Police and firefighters were called and Girtley was arrested.

His arrest comes after the indictment on arson and persistent felony offender charges.