Five children were found living in absolute horrid conditions at a home in Flagler County last week, and now their father is facing a charge of child neglect, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies described the inside of the home as “deplorable” with urine, feces, rotting food, trash, flies, and cockroaches throughout, and knives left out within reach of a child, according to the arrest report. Some of the children – aged 2, 4, 8, 15, and 16 – were walking around the home barefoot, deputies said.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Barley Lane in Palm Coast on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, after a grocery delivery driver noticed a 2-year-old child wandering in the street.
The child got into the delivery driver’s car for a moment, then got out and walked across the street to his home, authorities said.…