The South Carolina Department of Social Services has released its file on Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. and his family. It shows DSS received complaints about the family on three separate occasions and that the agency had extensive involvement with the family before all five children were killed...
The agency first started looking into the family in September 2011, after a neighbor notified DSS that the children were not attending school, were always dirty, and there were concerns about the home because the yard was always dirty with piles of trash in it... The caseworker reported that the home was cluttered and dirty, but Mrs. Jones said she and her husband were in the process of renovating it. Mrs. Jones was pregnant at the time...
DSS ruled the case to be “founded for neglect, presenting a substantial risk of physical injury” to the children, mainly because of the tools that were accessible to the children, an open air vent that a child stepped in, and a broken auto headlight with sharp shards of plastic within the children's reach.
And even worse I smell an insanity defense being cooked up for little Timmy. 
