A 23-year-old father in southern Kentucky has been charged with endangering his two young children after they were found unsupervised on a busy road. Jeremiah Grubb was arrested following the incident near Barbourville.
On Thursday at about 11:50 a.m., witnesses reported seeing two children, ages 2 and 3, wandering along KY 3439 South without adult supervision for roughly 15 minutes. One child was partially naked and the other needed a change of clothes. Deputies responded to the area outside Barbourville, about 90 miles north of Knoxville, Tennessee. Grubb was identified as the children's father. He was asleep at the time, while their mother was at work. The lock on the family home's door was broken. First responders cared for the children, who were later released to a family member after medical checks. Grubb faces two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor. He was booked into the Knox County Detention Center and arraigned in court on Monday. He is no longer listed as an inmate there.