Couple Arrested After Police Discover Bodies of Two Young Children with Faces Covered in Dried Feces

A couple from Oklahoma was arrested this month after authorities discovered their two young children covered in feces in a home so deplorable that officers had to wear hazmat suits to enter.

On September 12, three children under the age of five were rescued from the filthy home, leading to the arrest of Dakota Dodd, 24, and Aubrianna Freeman, 22, on charges of child neglect.

Oklahoma City police responded after a concerned neighbor reported the situation. Dodd led officers to a bedroom where they found the children, ages 3 and 4, with dried feces on them.

The children’s mother is also facing child neglect charges, according to police.

“There was faeces on the walls, faeces on the children. It was an absolutely disgusting scene,” Oklahoma City Police Master Sgt. Gary Knight told KOCO.

“Upon entry, officers described being almost overwhelmed by the smell of faeces and urine inside the residence.”

The young victims had “feces accumulated on their fingernails, palms, feet, legs, and face,” according to a police report obtained by Law and Crime.

The report describes horrific conditions throughout the home, including “piles of what appeared to be human feces” on the second floor and a bedroom floor “covered in multiple piles of smeared and flattened human feces.”

KOCO reported that the conditions were so unsanitary that investigators later wore hazmat suits while examining the crime scene.

Dodd, who is reportedly the children’s stepfather, allegedly told police he locked the children in the filthy room for over 12 hours a day so that Freeman, their mother, could sleep and to “keep the children safe because of the neighborhood,” according to News 9, citing the police report.

An 11-month-old girl, Dodd’s biological daughter, was also removed from the home, the station reported.

The neighbour who reported the alleged neglect told News 9, she saw the naked children at the window.

“They looked at me like, ‘Help me,’” Barbara North said.

“They had shit all over their faces, hands and mouths,” North added.

Dodd and Freeman have been charged with five counts of child neglect, according to Law and Crime.