5-year-old found home alone in filthy, rat-infested Bronx apartment
01/28/2018 12:05 pm PST
via WPIX:
NEW YORK CITY -- (WPIX) -- A 5-year-old was found home alone inside a filthy Bronx apartment Friday evening, police said.
Authorities were called about 6 p.m. about a boy found home alone, police said. A FedEx worker making a delivery discovered the boy when he answered the door and told the deliveryman his parents weren't home, the New York Post reported.
When they arrived, they discovered the boy inside the apartment — filled with trash, bugs, rats and feces, the Post reported.
The parents' three other children -- a 12-year-old girl, a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy -- were not home either.
The boy's mother, a nurse at Montefiore Hospital, and the father, an MTA employee, were taken into custody charged with endangering the welfare of a child and failing to exercise control of a minor.
The Administration for Children's Services told PIX11 News they are working with the NYPD to investigate the incident.
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