January Neatherlin has appeared via video during hearings at Deschutes County Circuit Court in Bend, such as this one on March 23, 2017.. (Joe Kline/Bulletin photo)

A Bend woman charged with running an illegal day care where she would routinely leave the children unattended so she could go tanning or to the gym was indicted on eight new felony charges Monday.

January Irene Neatherlin’s new charges come on top of the 114 charges she already faced for allegedly neglecting the children left in her care.

Neatherlin, 31, was arraigned on the new charges in Deschutes County Circuit Court on Monday. Additional bail was set at $250,000, making her total bail amount $750,000. To be released from the Deschutes County jail, she would have to post $75,000.

Defense attorney Matthew Baughman declined to protest the prosecution’s suggested bail amount. Attempts to reach Baughman on Monday were unsuccessful.

Neatherlin was arrested March 15 after police followed up on a tip claiming Neatherlin was leaving young children — between 6 months and 4 years old — alone in her home where she operated an illegal day care. Bend Police officers found Neatherlin at a tanning salon while seven children were left unattended at the home on Blue Bush Court. Neatherlin was initially arrested on suspicion of seven counts of second-degree child neglect, seven counts of reckless endangerment, first-degree theft and seven counts of criminal mistreatment.

Days later, a grand jury indicted Neatherlin on 114 charges.

The new charges allege Neatherlin’s conduct went on for years. The indictment from Neatherlin’s initial arrest claimed Neatherlin abandoned children at her day care — Little Giggles Daycare in northeast Bend — between March 3 and 15. Monday’s indictment alleges similar conduct going back as far as May 1, 2013, and as recently as Jan. 17.

During a bail hearing, Deschutes County Deputy District Attorney Kandy Gies claimed Neatherlin’s conduct March 15 was in line with a pattern of child neglect.

“This isn’t a one-time mistake; this isn’t a poor decision,” Gies said. “This is day after day after day, collecting people’s money, pretending to provide day care and not providing day care.”

Monday’s indictment lists seven people as witnesses subpoenaed by the grand jury, including Natasha Cawood. Cawood had previously talked to The Bulletin and said she and a friend found out about the neglect in 2015 and reported it to police. Cawood at the time had three children going to Little Giggles. Cawood said she went with several other mothers with children attending Little Giggles to the Bend Police Department, but that an arrest was never made due to a lack of evidence. Bend Police Lt. Clint Burleigh confirmed in March a previous investigation against Neatherlin had been opened.

When reached Monday, Cawood confirmed one of her children is named as a victim on the most recent indictment. She declined to discuss the case further. Burleigh deferred comment to the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office. The Bulletin was unable to reach District Attorney John Hummel.

Neatherlin has a hearing to enter a plea on both cases May 30.

— Reporter: 541-383-0376, awieber@bendbulletin.com