Parents Aubrianna Freeman, 22, and Dakota Dodd, 24
Parents Aubrianna Freeman, 22, and Dakota Dodd, 24 have been arrested for child neglect (Picture: Oklahoma County Detention Center)

Three young children – two of them covered in faeces and left for several hours in a locked room – were rescued from a flat so filthy police had to wear hazmat suits.

Parents Parents Aubrianna Freeman, 22, and Dakota Dodd, 24, were arrested for child neglect after the shocking discovery in Oklahoma City in the US.

Neighbour Barbara North alerted police on September 12, after spotting two young boys naked in an upstairs window, possibly in distress.

‘I’d go by that window and see them little boys naked in it,’ Ms North told News 9. ‘They looked up at me as if to say “help me.”

‘They would have dookie all over their face, hands, mouths,’ she said.

When police arrived they were overwhelmed by the smell of faeces and urine in the property, according to an affidavit obtained by Law & Crime. 

‘Once the door opened, I was struck with a smell that made my stomach turn and my eyes water,’ an officer wrote.

PLEASE LINK TO VIDEO OR EMBED IF USING GRABS: https://www.news9.com/story/66e8f289c1f573ddeced4145/smelled-so-bad-officer-was-retching:-couple-arrested-children-found-covered-in-feces OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -A metro couple is behind bars after the welfare of their children drew concern from a neighbor. She called the police and later learned her hunch was spot on. ?I?d go by that window and see them little boys naked in it, they looked at me as if to say help me,? said neighbor Barbara North. Oklahoma City Police entered the apartment in northwest Oklahoma City where they say officers found two naked children, ages three, and four, covered from head to toe in feces. Police said the children?s bedroom walls, furniture, and carpet were covered in the same filth. ?The house smelled so bad the officer was retching while in the house because she was overcome by the smell,? said Oklahoma City Police Msgt. Gary Knight. According to court filings, the apartment was so filthy officers wore hazmat suits. ?When someone dies, they come out and they got the white uniform, fire, police, everyone was covering the parking lot,? said North. Barbara North dubbed the neighborhood grandmother, called the police after seeing two naked boys standing behind a window smeared in feces. ?They would have dookie all over their face, hands, mouth,? said North. She says she tried to confront their mother and stepfather. ?I?d walk around the front, knock on the door, they wouldn?t open the door,? said North. North refused to give up and called the police and DHS. ?It says in the bible whoever has done unto a child has done it unto God, my calling is to be every child's grandmother,? said North. Police responded and arrested Dakota Dodd and Aubrianna Freeman. ?I was so happy that justice was served,? said North.
The flat in Oklahoma City where the family lived (Picture: News 9 – Oklahoma City)

The affidavit said that Dodd, the boys’ step dad and biological father to Freeman’s baby girl, answered the door at around 11.15am.

He still appeared to have ‘redness and marks’ on his face as if he had just been woken up from sleeping, police said.

Dodd initially told officers he was the only one home, but then admitted the two boys were upstairs and reluctantly took them to their room.

Aubrianna Freeman
Freeman, pictured, along with Dodd has been arrested for neglecting her children (Picture: Instagram)

Dakota Dodd's mug shot
Dodd told officers he would lock the boys in a room for more than 12 hours at a time (Picture: Oklahoma County Detention Center)

Describing what he saw, one officer wrote: ‘On the stairs leading up to the second floor, there were piles of what appeared to be human feces. The smell of feces got stronger as you walked up the stairs,’ the cop wrote.

‘At the top of the stairs was a bedroom. The room had no furniture, aside from a child’s plastic slide and a few toys.

‘Located in the closet was a twin-size bedframe. The frame was standing on its end and did not have a mattress.’

Neighbour Barbara North, who contacted police after seeing the boys naked and dirty in a window
Neighbour Barbara North contacted police after seeing the boys naked and dirty in a window (Picture: News 9 – Oklahoma City)

The affidavit said there were faeces on every surface, including walls, floors and windows.

As police opened the bedroom door, the boys, aged three and four, came out straight away ‘as if they had been standing at the door waiting or trying to get out’.

The children had ‘faeces caked in their fingernail beds, palms of their hands, feet, legs and faces,’ the affidavit noted.

Dakota Dodd
Dodd is a step dad to the boys and the biological father of the 11-month-old girl (Picture: Instagram)

Aubrianna Freeman
Freeman’s children have been taken into care (Picture: Oklahoma County Detention Center)

It also said the faeces were dried and did not appear to be fresh.

When crime scene investigators looked around the flat they wore hazmat suits to protect themselves from the smell.

News 9 reports that Dodd later told officers he locked the young boys in the bedroom for more than 12 hours at a time so Freeman could get enough sleep to ‘keep the kids safe’ due to the neighborhood.

The couple’s 11-month-old daughter was also found inside the home – but had been kept away from the boys.

Inside the filthy flat
Inside the filthy flat (Picture: News 9 – Oklahoma City)

The couple's flat
Investigating officers had to wear hazmat suits because of the smell (Picture: News 9 – Oklahoma City)

All three children were taken to a local hospital to be checked out, before being placed in Department of Human Services care.

Dodd and Freeman, meanwhile, were taken into custody and charged with five counts each of child neglect.

Their bonds were set at $250,000 each. 

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