Hidden Horrors: 2 women charged with child abuse and animal cruelty after shocking discovery

FLOMATON, Ala. (WALA) - Flomaton, Alabama. Population around 1,500. A small town just minutes away from the Florida state line.

It’s a tight knit community known as the gateway to the Gulf Coast.

It’s not a place where anyone expected to find horrific scenes inside a trailer on Old Atmore Road.

This is where investigators say Jessica Wright and Molly Weaver were living with two young children and three pets.

On July 5, Tracy Gandy, owner of Gandy’s RV Park, was doing yard work around the trailer Weaver and Wright were renting when he heard something alarming.

“One of the ladies that works for us tried to do an inspection and they kept putting off the inspection and wouldn’t let her in,” Gandy said. “And then they got two months behind on the rent, so we gave them an eviction notice, and we knew they got the eviction notice because they took it off the door, but they were sneaking in at night, you know going in the trailer. A couple of days later I was spraying around for weeds and stuff, and I heard the pets inside, so I got the spare key to open it up just to be able to check, and then that’s when I saw all the filth.”

Shocking to say the least. Piles of trash bags, bugs, human and animal feces.

Within all that were two dogs locked inside cages, forced to lie in their own waste.

But that wasn’t all.

“And a dead cat that she had admitted that she put in the garbage can and it was just a little small garbage can that goes in the bathroom with no liner,” Gandy said. “She just dropped the cat in there.”

The Flomaton Police and fire department came out to the scene. Video showing firefighters walking in using oxygen masks.

Gandy told me Wright and Weaver had moved to Florida at the time he found the horrendous conditions and says the two would sneak back in the trailer.

Just three weeks after the initial discovery, FOX10 News photojournalist Hayden Hite and I went inside the trailer. Gandy told us crews spent days cleaning but still had much more to go.

He said innocent children and pets shouldn’t have to endure something like this.

“It’s unbelievable,” he said. “I mean I’ve had my kids; I’ve raised stepchildren. Seeing something like this just breaks your heart.”

Wright and Weaver are charged with two counts of child abuse and two counts animal cruelty.

We’re told the children are now with other family members.

The dogs were taken to the Escambia County animal shelter