A Lower Macungie Township couple accused of abusing and malnourishing their teenage sons are now charged with conspiring to ...
The Lehigh County District Attorney's Office has announced additional charges against the Dechant couple, who allegedly ...
A Lehigh County couple is facing additional charges after being accused of starving twin teen boys and forcing them outside in frigid cold weather without clothes. Joshua D. Dechant, 36, and his wife, ...
A couple was charged after a 15-year-old boy told officials he was forced to stand outside naked in freezing temperatures.
Joshua Dechant, 36, and his wife and mother of the teens, Tracy Dechant, 42, were both charged this week with two felony counts each of endangering the welfare of children. Officers responded to ...
Then the boy started to speak. The picture came into focus. In the Lehigh County household of Tracy and Joshua Dechant, the child’s mother and stepfather, hunger was an instrument of coercion ...
Joshua Dechant, 36, and his wife and mother of the teens, Tracy Dechant, 42, were both charged this week with two felony counts each of endangering the welfare of children. Officers responded to ...