UPDATE: Parents Charged After Two Children Discovered Near Burning Vehicle in Bizarre Incident

FIINLEY, ND (trfnews.i234.me) Two parents are now facing criminal charges, after 2 children were found by a burning vehicle, early Christmas morning.
the charges have now been filed in a strange early christmas morning incident near uh finley north dakota that ended with the parents arrested and two children suffering a minor frostbite at 4 00 a.m according to court documents 26 year old tyler little ghost has been charged with ingesting meth child neglect endangerment of a child and arson her alleged partner seth sun no booking photo taken has been charged with ingesting meth a child neglect and endangerment of a child at 4 00 a.m on christmas day authorities were dispatched for a vehicle fire they also found a window broken out at the hefty seed company and two separate fires at an abandoned farmstead now here’s the entire story of what happened according to the criminal complaint with the names of the officers deleted quote on christmas at 4am a deputy with steele county sheriff’s office received a call from dispatch regarding a vehicle on fire and two kids out in the cold while responding and an additional phone call from an alarm company at the hefty seed plant was taken approximately five miles east of findlay which is in the same area as the vehicle on fire the deputy received information from dispatch regarding the father of two children seth’s son he had not been seen in four hours and had left the scene to get help his address is in finley i s uh the deputy stopped at that address to confirm whether he had made it home or not prior to responding or not prior to responding to the scene uh the deputy talked with seth’s father and was able to confirm that seth had not made it home the deputy then responded to the scene at the hefty seed plant upon arriving at the hefty seed plant the deputy found the mother of the two children a tyler little ghost tyler had uh allegedly broken a window and gained entry to the office space of the ftc plant so she could stay warm and get help tyler found a phone charger for her phone and uh was able to call her sister and then called 911 for help after making contact with tyler the deputy asked where her two where were her two children and the burning vehicle were located and she told me that her two kids in the burning vehicle were located on a township road approximately a mile and a half north of the hefty seed plant on the north side of highway 200. tyler and i uh the deputy then went to the scene of the fire to find the children upon arriving at the scene the father seth uh was with the two children in the middle of the road uh the deputy gave the two-year-old boy to tyler and seth and had the one-year and had the one-year-old and put all four of them in the squad car to keep them warm uh then finley fire and west trail ambulance were dispatched to the scene when finley fire arrived on the scene they took the two children to their emergency response vehicle for assessment and to keep them warm a finley fire emergency response vehicle then met with west trail ambulance at the intersection of township road and highway 200. west trail ambulance then took the children to sanford and mayville for evaluation and treatment the deputy kept the two parents in the squad car to stay warm while he conducted an investigation while conducting the investigation there was a vehicle that was on fire in the middle of the township road that passes through an old abandoned farmstead where a barn and steel building were also on fire upon investigating further finley fire department noticed that the contents of the steel building and contents of the old barn had been lit on fire the second floor of the barn was lit on fire and was still smoldering when finley fire arrived to extinguish it the deputy then went to question the two parents about the events that transpired seth and tyler told the deputy that they had went out driving at approximately 10 p.m that night with the two children and gotten the car stuck on the township road that does not get maintained in the winter they attempted to get the vehicle unstuck which led to the vehicle running out of gas the father seth started walking approximately five miles to neighboring farmsters to find help and was gone for approximately four hours to try and keep herself and her two children warm tyler lit the contents of the vehicle the barn and the steel building on fire once she ran out of burning materials she put the two kids in a tote and walked to the hefty seed plant to try and find help leaving the two juveniles alone at the sea next to the burning vehicle when i uh when the deputy asked tyler why she did not take the two children with her to the hefty seed plant she told me that she was unable to carry them and they as they were too heavy so she left them at the scene when i asked the two of them if they had been using any drugs or alcohol seth informed me that he had used meth the day prior uh but tyler would not confess to using anything uh seth’s father and his girlfriend arrived on the scene and when i asked him if seth or tyler had been using any drugs or alcohol that day the father’s girlfriend informed the deputy that tyler had been using meth the prior day in the morning i had then received a phone call from a doctor at sanford mayville who was requesting information about the scene so that she could better treat the children she informed me that the two-year-old seemed to be fine but the one-year-old was suffering from frostbite on his feet i then talked with a social worker from trail county social services that was at the hospital and relate information to her she then took the children into protective protective custody until the situation could be resolved after the scene was taken care of uh the deputy arrested the two parents and took them to sanford and fargo to be medically cleared and treated for any sustained injuries upon arriving at sanford and fargo the two of them were treated for their injuries the father seth was treated for frostbite on his feet and the mother tyler was treated for burns on her hands uh seth was admitted to the hospital for his injuries uh the deputy then cited and released him on a promise to appear in court on february 2nd the mother tyler was medically cleared after treatment and she was taken to the cass county jail for booking and given a court date of february 2nd i’m Neil Berg reporting for trfnews.i234.me