Police said a toddler wandered in the middle of Florida Street, with dirty diapers eventually causing police to arrive at a very dangerous house with the father drunk in bed.
The incident occurred on Sunday, March 16, when the Flagler County Sheriff’s Department of Florida responded to multiple emergency reports that “walked in the middle of the pajamas with severe diapers insulated the diapers”, said in a statement from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday, March 18.
The incident happened before witnesses said they observed a child in the front yard of a nearby house, who took the child to the residence, where they found the child’s father, Ross Judy, 44, of Palm Coast, “had a coma in his bed,” police said.
Authorities said the Flagler County Sheriff’s Department responded to the house, and during the investigation they found “dangerous tools and garbage in the interior and exterior of the house as well as animal feces, filth and a dog whose ears were almost rotten and whose body was missing.”
“The residence is in pathetic living conditions, with several alcoholic beverage containers, bugs swimming in toilet water, a sink piled high with inches of cigarette ash, no longer visible when it comes to the sink,” according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Department. “The bottles are spread in a spare room, on a living room shelf, and exposed razors and hypodermic needles, all of which are accessible to the kids.”
“There are no children living among adults who don’t care about their health, and they obviously don’t care about their health,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Stataly said in a written statement after the incident. “The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has no tolerance for anyone who endangers children or animals. I thank our residents for ‘seeing something and saying something’ so that our representatives can intervene.”
Judy was arrested and charged with neglecting the child without serious physical harm and abandoning the animal to die, become ill, become sick or be frail.
Authorities say the suspect was taken to Sheriff Perry Hall prisoner detention center and is currently held on a $4,000 margin.
The Florida Department of Children and Family and Palm Coast Animal Control is also investigating the incident, and is currently under investigation.
