Florida Mom Arrested After Hundreds Of Bugs Come Out Of Daughter's Backpack At School

A mother in Florida has been charged with child neglect after a teacher found hundreds of bugs in her daughter's backpack at school.

Jessica Stevenson, 33, of Santa Rosa County was arrested last week. In April, an employee at the child's Bagdad Elementary School alerted others after seeing the child wearing the same “severely soiled” clothes for an entire week, according to a police report, reports the Pensacola News Journal. When asked when she last took a bath, the second-grader reportedly said she did not know.

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Additionally, the child's teacher also told authorities that "hundreds of bugs" once crawled out of the girl’s backpack while she was in the school lunchroom.

At that point, child services went to the mother's home, where she has five children who are between the ages of 5 and 14, and found cockroach infestation in addition to rotten food. "The roaches were on nearly every surface in the home" including "on the children’s mattress, in the pots and pans in the kitchen, and inside the cabinets/fridge," according to the police report.

Stevenson was arrested last Friday and her bond was set at $12,500.