By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The couple who skipped out on their court hearing in which they were to be sentenced for the severe neglect of their teenage son will indeed be coming back to Lewis County, but authorities won’t say when, for security reasons.
These things take time, Lewis County Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer said today.
Anthony S. Foxworth Sr., 45, and Mary G. Foxworth, 43, were located in a motel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on Nov. 4 and taken into custody there. Centralia police had tracked them using financial and cell phone information, according to Centralia detective Patty Finch.
They had previously pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal mistreatment and were facing prison terms of about four years but failed to appear in Lewis County Superior Court for sentencing on Nov. 1.
Meyer said he believed they had waived a challenge to extradition and once all the proceedings have been taken care of, transportation will have to be arranged. Law enforcement from here will go to South Carolina and bring the couple back to Chehalis, according to Meyer.
They will be facing additional charges of bail jumping.
Centralia police began investigating in January of last year, after couple took their 16-year-old son to the doctor, and he was hospitalized with severe malnutrition, weighing just 54 pounds. Finch said he had not seen a doctor since 2007, was not enrolled in school and could not read or write.
Since he was taken out of his parents custody, he has gained more than 90 pounds, grown four inches and is attending school full time, according to Finch.
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For background, read “Parents in Centralia child neglect case discovered in South Carolina beach motel” from Sunday November 5, 2017, here
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