HOUSTON – Local 2 received the sickening video from a source with knowledge of the problem. The home on Knotty Oaks Trail near Orem and the Buffalo Speedway is called Our Father's House -- a nonprofit group home that houses residents over the age of 50 -- some with mental and physical handicaps. Our cameras spotted two people bringing items back into the residence after a pest control service treated the home for the bed bugs. The van they were driving was registered to the parent company of Our Father's House.
The people wouldn't talk, but the owner, Veronica Seivwright, told KPRC Local 2's Keith Garvin by phone that they had the problem for about a month -- brought in, she says, by a resident who had moved from another infested home.
Local 2 showed the video to pest control expert Claude Griffin of Gotcha Pest Control.
"Never in my lifetime have I ever seen a situation that is that disgusting," says Griffin.
says based on how large the bed bugs are, he believes they've been in the group home closer to a year -- not a month.
"They had been there a long time," says Griffin. "A lifetime of a bed bug is really based on their conducive conditions that they live in. But, you can get four to six months out of one here and there, but oh my God!"
Seivwright tells Local 2 seven residents live in the group home on Knotty Oaks Trail. The nonprofit owns at least one other group home about a block away from the Knotty Oaks residence.