Armstead v. Department of Welfare

WALLACE, JUDGE:

Since 1960, the claimant has lived in a house owned by her daughter and son-in-law on Cotton Tree Road in Roane County, West Virginia. On the evening of September 28,1978, while she was baby-sitting away from her home, a neighbor, Owen Parker, reported to her that lights were on in the house. She gave him the keys and asked him to investigate. She could not leave until the parents of the children for whom she was baby-sitting returned at approximately 9:30 p.m.

It was reported that two boys had been seen around her home and that they had run away from their foster parents’ home.…