SANTA ROSA COUNTY, FL. (THECOUNT) — Jessica Stevenson has been identified as the Florida mother arrested after school officials found “hundreds of bugs” her daughter’s backpack, according to an arrest report.
Stevenson, 33, is charged with five counts of child neglect after staff at her children’s school contacted the Florida Department of Children and Families to report a young student’s “poor hygiene.”
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An arrest report said that a school employee noticed that a girl had been wearing the same clothes to school for an entire week in April and said that “hundreds of bugs crawled out” of the student’s “backpack in the lunchroom.”
When deputies visited Stevenson’s home, they discovered an infestation of roaches, broken windows and bags of trash throughout the home and yard, the report said.
“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,” reports WESH.
The report also said there was no edible food in the home, but it did note that Stevenson’s bedroom was “abnormally” clean.
Stevenson was released from the Santa Rosa County Jail Saturday on a $2,500 bond.
The children have been removed from her care.
Geo quick facts: Santa Rosa County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2017 estimates, the population was 174,272. The county seat is Milton, which lies in the geographic center of the county. The largest communities are Navarre, Pace, and Gulf Breeze – Wikipedia.