Horrific pictures taken just after a woman with her four children moved out of a house in northeast Wichita Falls. Not only was trash piled all over the house, but there was rotting leftover food, human excrement all over the walls and appliances, but also roaches everywhere.

Lee Tysinger is the property manager for rent house owner Tina Tucker. "It was anywhere and everywhere you could look, the cockroaches were all over," he says.

He says he could hardly stand to go in to survey the property.

"They were everywhere. You couldn't walk in the front door without them climbing on you. They were in the furniture, under the furniture, all over the windows, the shades, in the kitchen counters, the refrigerator, the microwave. You open the door to the hot water heater -- they were jumping out at you," said Tysinger.

Even in those deplorable conditions, a CPS case worker was asking Tina Tucker, the owner, for more time for the family to stay, as the case worker put it, "for the good of the children." Which indicates the case worker probably hadn't even been in the house.

Just a couple of days ago, I talked again with Marleigh Meisner, with the Department of Family Protective Services. Here's how she tells me it works. Speaking in general terms... If children aren't removed from a home, the agency cannot speak about the case for privacy reasons for the children.

However, if children are removed, the action becomes a matter of public record because it goes through the court system. This case hasn't gone that far because there are no public records indicating kids have been taken by the state. So you can draw your own conclusions. That's not to say an investigation isn't underway.

In the mean time if you've got a question give me a call, that number is 687-U-ASK... That number again 687-8275.