An Oklahoma couple was arrested this month after their two small boys were found covered in feces in a home so horrid that authorities were forced to wear hazmat suits when they entered, according to police.
Three children under the age of five were saved from the revolting home on Sept. 12 and Dakota Dodd, 24, and Aubrianna Freeman, 22, were taken into custody on child neglect charges.
Oklahoma City police said officers arrived at the home after a concerned neighbor called in a tip. Police were led to a bedroom by Dodd where the boys, ages 3 and 4, were reportedly found with dried feces on them.
“Feces on the walls, feces on the kids. It was a completely disgusting scene,” Oklahoma City police Master Sgt. Gary Knight told KOCO.
“When they went inside, the officers described almost becoming overcome by the smell of feces and urine inside the residence.”
The young victims had “feces caked into their fingernail beds, palms of their hands, feet, legs, and faces,” according to a police report obtained by Law and Crime.
The report detailed the horrid conditions of the entire home, including “piles of what appeared to be human feces” on the second floor and a bedroom floor “covered in multiple piles of smeared and flattened human feces,” according to the outlet.
Because the conditions were so stomach-turning, investigators later wore hazmat suits when probing the crime scene, KOCO reported.
Dodd, who is reportedly the boys’ stepfather, allegedly admitted to police to locking the children in the dirty room for more than 12 hours daily so Freeman, their mother, could sleep and to “keep the kids safe due to the neighborhood,” News 9 reported, citing the police report.
An 11-month-old baby girl, who is Dodd’s biological daughter, was also removed from the home, the station reported.
The neighbor who called in the alleged neglect told News 9 she saw the boys naked in the window.
“They looked at me as if to say help me,” Barbara North said.
“They would have dookie all over their face, hands, mouth,” North added.
Dodd and Freeman have been charged with five counts of child neglect, Law and Crime reported.
