Vinton Couple Who Kept Hundreds Of Animals In Home On Now Probation After Guilty Plea

A Vinton couple found to have hundreds of animals — some of them dead — in their house along with three kids are serving probation after pleading guilty to child endangerment and animal neglect counts, court records show.Marshall R. Galkowski and Barbara D. Galkowski each pleaded guilty last month to three counts of child endangerment without injury, an aggravated misdemeanor, and four counts of animal neglect, a simple misdemeanor.They were assessed $65 fines for each of the animal neglect charges and placed on two years of probation and fined a total of $625 each for the child endangerment charges.As a condition of their deferred judgment, they must participate in parent-child and mental health evaluations and allow state child care workers or law officers in their home without notice to check for compliance, records show.Additionally, the court set rules on what pets they could have: a dog, a fish, two cats and up to an additional six small animals in properly maintained cages inside the house.