The Department of Family Services in Hawkins County, Tennessee, has removed three children from the home where Summer Wells is believed to have disappeared last month.
As investigators continue to search the rural east Tennessee area for the missing five-year-old girl, her three brothers are no longer living with their parents, Don Wells and Candus Bly.
For days, social media groups dedicated to the search for Summer Wells have been abuzz with the unconfirmed reports about Summer’s brothers being removed by social services.
“There’s too much going on and people are crazier than hell, and right now it’s just not safe at my house,” Wells told the news outlet. “There’s too much going on. Too many crazy people coming around trying to start stuff.”