Self-Help Author Charged With Animal Cruelty For Hoarding 300 Animals And Over 100,000 Cockroaches In NY Home
Karin Keyes, the author of “Journey Into Awareness: Reclaiming Your Life,” was charged with multiple counts of cruel confinement of animals after animal control found hundreds of rabbits, birds, cats, snakes, and tortoises covered in their own feces and “tens of thousands” of cockroaches inside her home. Making things even more insane, Keyes is also a social worker who was seeing patients inside her house of filth, and one of those patients reported her to authorities. Via NBC:
A Long Island home has been condemned and its owner arrested after more than 300 animals and 100,000 roaches were allegedly found on her property, officials said Tuesday.
The grotesque storyline started to play out earlier this month when firefighters were called to the Miller Place home, according to the Suffolk district attorney’s office.
According to the lead investigator, the 51-year-old woman who owns the home is a social worker who was seeing patients in the house. Patients tripped the fire alarm, which is why firefighters showed up.
That’s when all the animals — 118 rabbits, 150 birds, seven tortoises, three snakes and 15 cats, among others — along with 100,000 roaches were discovered. The air was so noxious no one could stay inside for long, authorities say, and rescuers were forced to wear haz-mat suits.
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On the Amazon page for her “Journey Into Awareness” self-help book, Keyes says “We all have a place on this planet,” and, “This book is a compilation of realizations that I have come to for myself along the way, especially following a couple of the most traumatic years of my life, as well as those that I have come to in response to people who I continue to work with in private practice. More than anything, I have become aware that we are all on this journey together.”
