New Kensington, Pa, woman charged with leaving 3 children with convicted sex offender

A New Kensington, Pa, woman faces child endangerment charges after police say she left three children alone with her husband, a convicted sex offender. Police say she left three children, ages 5, 7 and 16, in the care of Earl Eugene Kenney, 40, while she was at work on May 5, according to a criminal complaint.

Earl Kenney is registered for life on the state’s Megan’s Law site, and is not to be in contact with children unsupervised. He was convicted in November 2008 of multiple charges including sexual abuse of children, indecent assault and the sexual exploitation of children, according to a police report.

Earl Kenney was arrested May 12 on parole violations. A restriction of his parole is that he cannot be in the presence of children unless supervised by an adult. Further, he is required to get written permission from the parole office before having contact with anyone under 18. According to the complaint, a Children’s Bureau caseworker said she found Earl Kenney supervising the three children without any other adult present when the caseworker made an unannounced home visit the morning of May 5. When Jaymi Lyn Kenney returned from work she told the caseworker she was not concerned about the children’s safety with Earl Kenney because (she believed) he was wrongly convicted in 2008, according to the complaint.

The caseworker returned on May 6 and told Jaymi Lyn Kenney that she had been named as a perpetrator for all three children, and would need to be supervised while with them. A relative took custody of all three children. Jaymi Lynn Kenney told the caseworker that Earl Kenney would not hurt the children, and that she could not be charged with any crime because she didn’t do anything wrong, according to the complaint. Police charged Jaymi Lyn Kenney, 41, on Friday with three misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of children against her.

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