A Rice Twp. couple awaiting trial on assault charges alleging they severely starved a 6-year-old boy was arrested again Tuesday over new allegations that they housed their children in a filthy home.
Zachary Michael Vincent, 30, and his wife, Natalie M. Shaffer, 26, were charged with aggravated assault last month after police said the starving child â who is Shafferâs son and Vincentâs stepson â showed up at Greater Nanticoke Area Elementary Center weighing only 20 pounds.
The new complaint alleges that when Luzerne County detectives showed up at their home at 155 Pine View Dr. to arrest them Feb. 3, they found four children living in squalor, one of whom was wearing a heavy, urine-soaked diaper.
A Rice Twp. couple was arrested Thursday on charges alleging they starved a 6-year-old boy so severely that he weighed only 20 pounds when he appeared at Greater Nanticoke Area Elementary Center one day last year.
Zachary Michael Vincent, 30, and his wife, Natalie M. Shaffer, 26, both of 155 Pine View Dr., were jailed without bail on felony assault charges following an arraignment by Magisterial District Judge Donald L. Whittaker.
According to the complaints filed by Luzerne County detectives, police began investigating the case in January 2020 after the starving child â who is Shafferâs son and Vincentâs stepson â showed up at the Nanticoke school.