FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man was arrested after his 2-year-old baby was discovered wandering alone in the midst of a avenue close to their “deplorable” Palm Coast dwelling, in accordance with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Workplace.
On Sunday, deputies mentioned they acquired a number of 911 calls from neighbors a few 2-year-old strolling in the midst of a avenue in pajamas and a closely dirty diaper.
Witnesses mentioned they noticed the kid within the entrance yard of a close-by dwelling earlier than the incident.
The neighbors took the kid to the house, the place they discovered the kid’s father, 44-year-old Ross Judy, handed on in his mattress intoxicated, in accordance with deputies.
Inside the house, investigators mentioned they discovered “harmful instruments and rubbish” together with “animal feces, filth, and an emaciated canine with an ear that was virtually rotted off and fur lacking from its physique.”
Deputies mentioned the house was “in deplorable dwelling circumstances,” with bugs discovered swimming in rest room water and a “sink piled excessive with a number of inches of cigarette ash to the purpose the sink was now not seen inside the house.”
They mentioned in addition they discovered capsule bottles scattered all through a spare room and uncovered razors and hypodermic needles, which have been all accessible to the kid.
“No baby needs to be dwelling in deplorable circumstances with an grownup who clearly doesn’t care about their wellbeing,” mentioned Sheriff Rick Staly. “The Flagler County Sheriff’s Workplace has no tolerance for anybody endangering youngsters or animals. I’m grateful to our residents who ‘noticed one thing and mentioned one thing’ in order that our deputies might intervene.”
Judy was arrested on fees of kid neglect with out nice bodily hurt and abandoning an animal to die.
Judy was taken to the Sheriff Perry Corridor Inmate Detention Facility, the place he’s being held on a $4,000 bond.
