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A violent household
When state investigators interviewed the three oldest children in May 2017, they said they had witnessed domestic violence for much of their lives.
One boy said police took away his dad because "he was going to kill us," according to the Child Protective Services petition. The kids said they had seen Yenier Conde hold a gun to their mother's head multiple times.
Sarah Conde filed a personal protection order against her husband after he filed for divorce in April 2017; she said he abused her. She was so scared of him that she was living in her car at the time of the filing because she didn't want to go home, she wrote.
The violence wasn't only between the mother and father, the children said.
One boy reported that he had been beaten with a piece of wood with nails in it. One of the girls had a scar on her butt from a spanking.
When the kids flooded the bathroom with water, Sarah Conde lined them up and pointed a loaded gun at them, according to the Child Protective Services petition.
According to the oldest boy:
She almost shot us. She made us stand in a line. She was laughing with her gun.
She was about to shoot us. She said, 'Stand in a line so that the blood can spill on (the oldest boy) and then (he) can come up front and I can shoot him.'
She showed the kids the bullets in the gun and pointed it at the youngest child's face, according to the court petition.
Then she pulled the trigger.
The gun jammed. Nothing happened.
"I was scared," the youngest child, now 6, told investigators. "She clicked on the gun. ... She wasn't even playing on it. I was scared because I was afraid that she was going to shoot us."
Sarah Conde told the kids they got lucky, then ordered them back upstairs, one child told investigators.
A psychologist who examined Sarah Conde said her scores on some tests indicated she may have a "low frustration tolerance, tendencies to be impulsive, poor ego development, and prone to increasing levels of coercive discipline as stress increases."
Sarah Conde runs an American Kennel Club breeding program, Capital Chaos Danes, out of her home.
The business' website says she weans puppies from their mother right next to her bedroom and cares for them bedside and that all the dogs have full access to every part of the house and the fenced-in backyard.
Yenier Conde told Child Protective Services investigators that his wife "would care for the dogs at the expense of the children."
The divorce
As the state investigation progressed, Sarah and Yenier Conde's marriage fell apart. Sarah Conde accused her husband of cheating on her.
She started dating another man, according to divorce paperwork. Yenier Conde filed for divorce.
Although both accused the other of abusing the children, both asked for joint legal custody.
Initially, the state aimed to reunite the children with their parents. But as the investigation progressed, and the Condes went through classes, treatment and further interviews, investigators decided the children would be better off if they weren't with their parents, according to the child-protection petition to terminate the Condes' parental rights.
They lost custody of the children in June.
A psychiatrist and psychologist who evaluated the children said all five suffered serious psychological abuse and had thought and mood disorders. Two of the kids were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, Scaccia said.
Three of the children had not seen a dentist in years and had rotting teeth that needed to be extracted, he said.
In 2013, Yenier Conde had been sentenced to probation for larceny and embezzlement between $1,000 and $20,000, a felony.
During a Child Protective Services home visit last year, officials found three guns that he was not supposed to have because of his felony conviction. He now faces two charges of possession of a firearm as a felon and two felony firearm enhancements.
Sarah Conde also is charged with felonious assault and a felony firearm enhancement.
Yenier Conde had two previous charges of second degree child abuse and unlawful imprisonment from October 2017, but both were dismissed in Ingham County Circuit Court.
Sarah Conde is in custody in the Ingham County Jail in Lansing. Her bail has been set at $50,000.
Yenier Conde had not been taken into custody as of Thursday morning.
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