Toddlers In Diapers Found Along Train Tracks In Pouring Rain, Parents Charged

A couple was arrested Monday after their two toddlers, aged 1 and 2, were found running along the train tracks in the rain wearing just dirty diapers in Muncie, Indiana.

According to a probable cause affidavit, the children were spotted running around in the pouring rain near the intersection of Lincoln and Adams by a bystander who immediately informed the police.

“He (bystander) stated he had witnessed trains just go by and he knew there were some coming soon,” the affidavit says.

A city police officer said both of them were covered in dirt and had dirty diapers. The toddlers who appeared hungry and thirsty were immediately taken to City Hall where another officer changed their diapers. They were also given meals from McDonald’s.

They were placed into foster care after an official from the Department of Child Services assumed custody of them.

Two hours after they were picked up from the tracks, the boys’ mother, Taylor Nicole Shively reported her children missing. She said she had no excuse for why the boys had gotten out but was on new medication and fell asleep for a long time.

Taylor, 22, and her husband Brady Ray Shively, 28, who was also the target of an unrelated warrant, were charged with two counts of neglect of a dependent.

Brady now faces a total of four charges in two pending case which includes two counts of driving while suspended, driving while intoxicated and driving with a controlled substance in system, while his wife was convicted of theft in 2015, local daily the Muncie Star Press reported.

Taylor was being held under a $5,000 bond while her husband remains in jail without bail.

The toddlers’ grandmother told officials it was the fourth time the children had gotten out of the house because of their parents neglect.

In an unrelated incident Tuesday, a woman was charged after an 8-month-old baby was found left alone in a closed car outside a business near Orange City, Florida.

“There is a baby in a car and we just opened the door but we don’t know where the people are whose car it is,” a caller reported to police adding “We opened the car so we can at least get air into the car.”

The caller also said that it was possible the baby had not been too long in the car since the car was not too hot and that the baby was “fine, not crying, breathing,” local daily the News Journal reported.

Meagan Burgess, the woman caring for the baby, arrived back at the vehicle nearly half an hour after the cops were called and informed the police she had forgotten the baby was in the car, as she had just dropped off several other children with a family member.

She was charged with child neglect and booked at the Volusia County Branch.