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A city woman is facing endangerment charges after her small child was found in the road Tuesday, while a check of her home found it to be “unfit to inhabit” for six children living there.

Police took 21-year-old Kaitlyn Seekings into custody after Jamestown police were called around 11:12 a.m. to the 100 block of Forest Avenue for a report of a small child in the road.

Police ensured the child was safe and canvassed the area to locate the child’s home.

About a half hour after the child was found, Seekings became “irate with witnesses” who had been caring for the child, Jamestown police said.

“After a brief inspection of the residence and investigation, it was learned that four adults and six children were living in a home which was unfit to inhabit and had been without water for approximately three weeks,” JPD said. “There were containers of urine and feces in various rooms throughout the home. There was unbagged garbage and debris in much of (the) home.”

Child Protective Services and the Jamestown Department of Development responded to the scene. The home was condemned, and the children were placed in care of a family member.

Seekings is facing charges of disorderly conduct and endangering the welfare of a child.

Other charges are pending.