Parents in Florida have been charged with neglect after their sleeping baby was found with cockroaches crawling over his body – even after his mother flipped his playpen upside down each night to “shake the insects out” and sprayed a tight circle of Raid around it, police say.
The disturbing discovery was made during a welfare check at a Palm Coast apartment that deputies later described as reeking of a “vile and putrid odor” and was covered in animal and insect feces.