By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-20 05:05:51 | Updated at 2024-11-20 07:22:37
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Lindsey Powell was arrested in New York and brought back to NY.
Vernon Police Department
A Connecticut mother was arrested after she left her children – all under the age of 12 – alone in their putrid-smelling home overrun with human feces and moldy food, according to police.
Lindsey Powell allegedly subjected her three daughters and one son to horrendous conditions inside their Vernon apartment after abandoning them on Nov. 8, an arrest warrant reported on local outlets said Tuesday.
When an officer reached the home after receiving a call from a concerned neighbor, the 11-year-old daughter opened the door with her three younger siblings behind her and naked, CT Insider reported, citing the police docs.
“I was hit with the smell of cat urine, rotting food and feces,” the officer on scene later wrote, per the outlet.
“It was difficult to stand in the doorway because the stench originating from inside the apartment was burning my nostrils.”
The living room and kitchen had trash, dirt and moldy food sprawled across the floor with the kitchen floor littered with human and cat feces, the warrant states.
The only items in the fridge were expired milk and a bottle of juice.
A pull-out sofa that the children slept on had a filthy guinea pig cage on it with a guinea pig inside; the bedrooms didn’t have any beds.
“I had difficulty standing in the bedroom for longer than a few seconds because of this smell,” the office reportedly wrote.
“The children, however, entered this bedroom without issue. I believed the children had become nose blind to the awful stench of the bedroom.”
At one point, he saw one of the children “eating old pasta from the floor.”
The kids munched on a frozen pizza the night before and then had some of that the following morning before they started scrounging for more food.
When Powell was contacted by a friend, she claimed she would be back soon, but never showed. The officer stayed with the kids for seven hours – and a group of neighbors also came over to give the kids food – before the state’s Department of Children and Families took over.
Powell, who at one point threatened suicide to a family member, was later tracked down to Poughkeepsie and arrested.
She was hauled back to Connecticut on Monday to face four counts of risk of injury to a minor, the newspaper reported.
