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Off Grid Couple Fighting CPS

This Blessed Homestead facebook blog
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A couple who blog about their "off-the-grid" lifestyle faces a hearing Monday to regain custody of their 10 children after Child Protective Services put them into foster care.

Deputies removed Nicole and Joe Naugler's children from their home Wednesday following a confrontation between Nicole Naugler and a Breckinridge County sheriff's deputy. A deputy who went to the Nauglers' home to conduct a welfare check for Child Protective Services took Nicole Naugler into custody and charged her with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Another confrontation over water on Sunday prompted a criminal summons for Joe Naugler on a charge of menacing.

The Naugler's 27-acre homestead is constructed under tarps and has no wired electricity, no running water and no toilets. The children do not attend formal schools but are registered as home-school students.

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Karyn Czar