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VIDALIA, La. — Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested two people on charges of child desertion and resisting officers after discovering a disabled child left at home alone.

Deputies responded to a house on Lynn Haven Drive after receiving multiple 911 calls from that address. On their arrival, they learned that the calls were from a young child with disabilities who was nonverbal. The child was also naked, dirty, emaciated and was at home alone, authorities said.

Detectives of CPSO’s Special Victims Unit were contacted and the guardians of the child, Laurie Maegan Stewert, 32, and Tony Curtis Williams, 27, both from Vidalia, arrived at the residence shortly before detectives and became noncompliant while being interviewed, authorities said.

The pair were taken into custody. The Department of Child and Family Services were contacted and the child was put in their care.

This investigation is ongoing and additional charges are expected, authorities said.