Connecticut Mom Arrested After 5 Children Found Eating Dog Food Off Floor, Living in Feces Covered Apartment
Police arrested a woman Thursday after they found five children living in deplorable conditions in a third floor Connecticut apartment , according to WTIC. Police and fire crews were called to the apartment in downtown Middletown around 2 p.m. after a report of an air conditioner fire caused by a cigarette thrown from the third floor window. The rear exit of the apartment was blocked by trash, fire officials learned . The health department was also on scene because of complaints that there was a leak from the apartment into the second floor ceiling. Chloe Edwards, 27, opened the door when officers arrived and they were “taken back by the smell coming from the apartment.” Police said the carpet was covered with food, urine, feces, and cockroach carcasses. There were “a multitude of flies were in the apartment as well.” Officers found five juveniles in the apartment – four were her children and the fifth had been reported missing by her mother Aug. 4. Officers found a tub with a con...