 A Pike County couple was indicted this week for allegedly keeping their children locked, unsupervised and unsanitary conditions. The grand jury in Pike County indicted 28-year-old William Daniels and 22-year-old Cassidy Finley, both of Pikeville, on three felony counts each of first-degree criminal abuse. Pikeville police responded on January 22 to a report of possible child abuse or neglect at the couple's residence on Cyprus Lane. Their officers found the couple's three children locked in separate rooms unsupervised. Police wrote in court documents that one of the children was covered in its own feces and human waste was smeared on the walls of the room. The other children were allegedly locked in rooms with dangerous items including medication and sharp objects. The couple was originally charged with felony wanton endangerment but Commonwealth's attorney Bill Sloan said the grand jury indicted them on the harsher criminal abuse charges due to the circumstances of the case. As the police officers continued their investigation, they found a four-year-old child in a bedroom that was locked from the outside. The handles on the door, this door had been turned around so typically if you're in a bedroom the lock is on the inside so you can lock to keep people from coming in but in this case the lock was turned around to prevent the child or whoever might be in that bedroom from getting out. This child had no clothes on, there was a lot of trash and so forth in the room. They found feces that was smeared on the window, on the walls and all over the child basically. Another child was found in a bedroom in a crib left alone and then another child was in another bedroom that was locked from the outside again. We felt like and looking at the photographs of stuff that there was a lot of things in there that could be a hazard to the children, there was an electrical outlet that had no cover on it and there was a door that had been basically nailed shut that couldn't be open. I think that door would go into the master bedroom or the parents bedroom but there was a screws in it that would keep it from opening from inside the bedroom. So this case the parents initially were charged with wanton endangerment first degree but in looking at it closer we believe that it more appropriately fit the statute of criminal abuse in the first degree and the main thing that we believe the statutes that is the cruel confinement of these children. The couple could face up to ten years in prison on each charge if convicted. The children have since been placed in the care of relatives.