Three toddlers were rescued from an apartment covered in feces so disgusting that investigators were forced to wear hazmat suits as they searched the scene.
Oklahoma City police were alerted when neighbor Barbara North called on Sept. 12 and reported seeing two naked young men at an upstairs window, possibly in danger.
“I would walk by that window and see those naked kids there,” North said. He told News 9“They looked at me as if to say ‘help me’.”
“They had shit all over their faces, hands and mouths,” he said.
When police later arrived at the scene, they described being overwhelmed by the smell of feces and urine inside.
Aubrianna Freeman and Dakota Dodd were arrested after Oklahoma City police found their children covered in feces.
“Once the door opened, I was hit with an odor that turned my stomach and made my eyes water,” one officer wrote in an affidavit. obtained by Law & Crime.
Dakota Dodd, 24, the children’s stepfather, is said to have answered the door to police at around 11.15am that day but still appeared to have “redness and marks” on his face as if he had just woken up.
At first, Dodd allegedly said he was the only one home, before later admitting that his two children were upstairs and reluctantly agreeing to allow the responding officer to follow him into the children’s bedroom.
The officer then described what he saw.
Officers were alerted to the scene on September 12 after a neighbor spotted two naked children in an upstairs window.
An affidavit describes how every surface in the children’s room, including walls, floors and windows, were covered in feces.
“On the stairs leading to the second floor were piles of what appeared to be human feces. The smell of feces became stronger as you ascended the stairs,” the officer wrote.
‘At the top of the stairs was a bedroom. The room had no furniture except for a plastic children’s slide and some toys.
‘There was a double bed in the closet. The bed was standing upright and had no mattress.’
The affidavit also noted that there was feces on every surface, including the walls, floors and windows.
And when officers opened the bedroom door, two children, ages 3 and 4, immediately came out “as if they had been standing at the door waiting or trying to get out,” the affidavit says.
She said the children “had feces accumulated on their fingernails, palms, feet, legs and faces.”
He also says that ‘the fees were dry and did not appear to be ‘fresh.”
When crime scene investigators arrived at the scene, they had to put on hazmat suits to protect themselves from the stench.
Her bedroom was connected to a bathroom, but was reportedly locked from the other side.
Dodd later allegedly admitted to locking the children in the bedroom for more than 12 hours a day, so that their mother, Aubrianna Freeman, 22, could get enough sleep to “keep the kids safe because of the neighborhood,” News 9 reports.
The bedroom was connected to a bathroom, but the door was locked from the other side.
A third child, an 11-month-old girl who was Dodd’s biological daughter, was also found inside the home but was kept away from the children.
The three children were then taken to a local hospital for examination and placed in the care of the Department of Human Services.
Meanwhile, both Dodd and Freeman were arrested and each charged with five counts of child neglect.
Their bail was set at $250,000 each.
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