11-21-2010, 01:13 PM
look at these 2 and you'll hear dueling banjos...
NEWS4jax
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Two parents who were charged with child neglect Tuesday have had their children taken away from them.
Jacksonville police called to the 11500 block of Renne Drive on the Northside said they found five children living in a home covered with roaches and mold.
David See III, 36, and Virginia See, 34, were arrested and then released from jail Wednesday when they posted bail.
The Department of Children and Families called police to the home and recommended the children, ages 10, 8, 5, 2 and 10 months, be immediately removed from the poor living conditions, according to a police report.
According to the report, the officer called to the 1,100 square-foot home "could immediately smell a horrible, putrid smell of a combination of dirty laundry, stale food, stale cigarette smoke and mold."
There were roaches and spiders on every table, and there were dirty clothes on the floor, couch and TV, according to the police report.
The carpet was filthy with large stains, loose dirt and small rocks "as if it had not been cleaned in months," the report reads.
In the corner of the living room was a small two-gallon aquarium containing dead fish floating in stagnant water, according to the report.
Uncovered food sat on the kitchen counter that had been there long enough for mold to grow on it, the report says.
"Roaches were in every place I looked," the responding officer wrote. "So many roaches, they were falling from the ceiling onto the floor."
The officer said he saw a molded-over pan in the oven covered in roaches and small bugs. The sink was full of dirty, dried dishes, and the cupboards had no clean plates or cups for the children to eat and drink from, according to the report.
The refrigerator was filthy, containing sour milk with an expiration date of Oct. 12 and food that appeared to have been there so long that it was beginning to mold, according to the report.
No baby formula or food of substance for the children was found, and all the food was so old that it was spoiled, according to the report.
A 5-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide mound of dirty clothes that had not been washed in months was found in the laundry room.
"I could not see a washer and dryer, perhaps because they were covered in soiled clothes," the officer wrote. "I could not find any laundry detergent."
The floor of the back bedroom was covered in dirty laundry and soiled baby diapers, and in the middle of the floor was a small crib with roaches inside it, according to the police report.
The children's bedroom also had piles of dirty clothes all over the floor, and there were two mattresses on the floor with no bed frames and no sheets or blankets, according to the report.
"There were open containers of food on the floor that could have been there for days, if not weeks," the officer wrote in the report. "The room was filthy and smelled of stale urine as if the children had wet their beds over and over again without being cleaned."
According to the police report, some of the children had blisters and chaffed areas from their diapers, and some had not had a bath in days.
The officer wrote of one child: "Her diaper was soiled, and it appeared if she had been wearing it for days."
"It was horrible living conditions for children. This was inhumane," DCF spokesman John Harrell said. "You couldn't imagine the children in this day and age, 2010, would be living in this sort of environment.
"There's a big difference between this and having a house that just happens to be messy with a few things out of place -- big difference," Harrell said. "It's a health risk. It's a sanitary risk for children when you have things like dead fish in an aquarium, clothes that haven't been washed in several months. All sorts of things on the floor. It's incredibly disturbing."
The children's grandmother said in a phone interview Friday that she had to inform DCF about what was going on for the safety of the children.
This family is linked to anther child abuse tragedy. The Sees' nephew Jonathan died in 2006 when his grandmother used a powerful pain killer patch on him. She recently pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
NEWS4jax
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Two parents who were charged with child neglect Tuesday have had their children taken away from them.
Jacksonville police called to the 11500 block of Renne Drive on the Northside said they found five children living in a home covered with roaches and mold.
David See III, 36, and Virginia See, 34, were arrested and then released from jail Wednesday when they posted bail.
The Department of Children and Families called police to the home and recommended the children, ages 10, 8, 5, 2 and 10 months, be immediately removed from the poor living conditions, according to a police report.
According to the report, the officer called to the 1,100 square-foot home "could immediately smell a horrible, putrid smell of a combination of dirty laundry, stale food, stale cigarette smoke and mold."
There were roaches and spiders on every table, and there were dirty clothes on the floor, couch and TV, according to the police report.
The carpet was filthy with large stains, loose dirt and small rocks "as if it had not been cleaned in months," the report reads.
In the corner of the living room was a small two-gallon aquarium containing dead fish floating in stagnant water, according to the report.
Uncovered food sat on the kitchen counter that had been there long enough for mold to grow on it, the report says.
"Roaches were in every place I looked," the responding officer wrote. "So many roaches, they were falling from the ceiling onto the floor."
The officer said he saw a molded-over pan in the oven covered in roaches and small bugs. The sink was full of dirty, dried dishes, and the cupboards had no clean plates or cups for the children to eat and drink from, according to the report.
The refrigerator was filthy, containing sour milk with an expiration date of Oct. 12 and food that appeared to have been there so long that it was beginning to mold, according to the report.
No baby formula or food of substance for the children was found, and all the food was so old that it was spoiled, according to the report.
A 5-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide mound of dirty clothes that had not been washed in months was found in the laundry room.
"I could not see a washer and dryer, perhaps because they were covered in soiled clothes," the officer wrote. "I could not find any laundry detergent."
The floor of the back bedroom was covered in dirty laundry and soiled baby diapers, and in the middle of the floor was a small crib with roaches inside it, according to the police report.
The children's bedroom also had piles of dirty clothes all over the floor, and there were two mattresses on the floor with no bed frames and no sheets or blankets, according to the report.
"There were open containers of food on the floor that could have been there for days, if not weeks," the officer wrote in the report. "The room was filthy and smelled of stale urine as if the children had wet their beds over and over again without being cleaned."
According to the police report, some of the children had blisters and chaffed areas from their diapers, and some had not had a bath in days.
The officer wrote of one child: "Her diaper was soiled, and it appeared if she had been wearing it for days."
"It was horrible living conditions for children. This was inhumane," DCF spokesman John Harrell said. "You couldn't imagine the children in this day and age, 2010, would be living in this sort of environment.
"There's a big difference between this and having a house that just happens to be messy with a few things out of place -- big difference," Harrell said. "It's a health risk. It's a sanitary risk for children when you have things like dead fish in an aquarium, clothes that haven't been washed in several months. All sorts of things on the floor. It's incredibly disturbing."
The children's grandmother said in a phone interview Friday that she had to inform DCF about what was going on for the safety of the children.
This family is linked to anther child abuse tragedy. The Sees' nephew Jonathan died in 2006 when his grandmother used a powerful pain killer patch on him. She recently pleaded guilty to manslaughter.