When Johnathan Schumm and his wife, Allison were arrested in Shawnee County, the storyline revolved around a pair of foster parents and a terrible crime that had occurred in their home.. A city council member was being charged with “torture or cruelly beating a person under 18 years old”, and it was instantly statewide news.
The statement by a city official didn’t say when and where the warrants were served. On jail records, the Schumms list 2713 S.E. Michigan as their home address.
Jonathan Schumm, 34, was arrested in connection with one count each of aggravated battery and abuse of a child, and four counts of endangering a child, a jail official said.
The bond for Jonathan Schumm is $35,000 cash or surety bond, a jail official said. He was booked in at 6:57 p.m. Thursday.
At 7:04 p.m. Thursday, Allison Schumm, 32, was booked into jail in connection with the same offenses as her husband, a jail official said.
Allison Schumm’s bond is $20,000 cash or surety, the jail official said.
Today, though, the Kansas Health Institute went behind the scenes to blow the doors off a problem that wasn’t addressed in the original reporting. The Schumms, who had provided a home to 16 children through foster care services had undergone a court proceeding in 2014 to remove a young child from the only home she had ever known.. the couple who cared for that child? A married lesbian couple.