A girl brought a backpack filled with cockroaches to school and stopped her mother

A girl who was in grade two at a school in the state of Florida, United States, caught the attention of one of the school's employees because she was wearing the same clothes throughout the school year. week. In addition, the little girl had her backpack filled with badroaches that were starting to spread in the school.

Both facts led to an investigation into the conditions in which the girl lived, which led to the arrest of her mother for negligence.

The conditions in which the child arrived at the school prompted an employee of the institution to accuse, in mid-April, agents of the police station of Milton, a locality of Santa Rosa County, in northwestern Florida, in order to find out how the situation lived the little one.

When they arrived home, they discovered that the child and his four little brothers were living in a deplorable state, surrounded by filth, with dirty urine clothes and thousands of roaches roaming around the house. house, according to the newspaper.
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"The badroaches were on almost every surface of the house, including the children's mattress, in the pots and pans of the kitchen, as well as in the cabinets and the refrigerator," says the report. Plus, there were piles of gaucho dung "all over the floor" and the shelves in the place had no food, according to the same report.

To all this is added that the girl did not remember the last time she had washed or washed, there was no clean clothes in the house and some of the clothes of the child was "soaked with faeces and urine". same report.

As a result, Jessica Nicole Stevenson, a 33-year-old mother of children, aged 5 to 14, was arrested and charged with five counts of child abandonment, without significant bodily harm. For this crime, she could be sentenced to 25 years in prison.

The woman received a $ 12,500 bail to be released, but was released in early May after paying 10% of that amount.

"Everyone has badroaches in Florida"

Stevenson, the children's mother, said she had never neglected or abused her children. He did it in testimonials at the US WEAR channel. She also indicated that she was looking for a public defender to represent her at her next negligence trial.

The woman who defended herself against her means she is single and has little income. "I'm not a bad mother, I do what I can, it's not easy when we are a person and we have five children, I want to do better and I try" , did he declare.

While awaiting trial, the court determined that he had no contact with his children and that he refrained from drinking alcohol. He was not informed of the place of residence of the children after Stevenson's release.

The lady added that the problem of roaches had to be solved quickly. "We have roaches, everyone in Florida has roaches in Florida."

The start of the process for Ms. Stevenson is scheduled for May 30, in front of the Santa Rosa County Court in Milton.