Crime & Safety
Feces-Filled Home Leads to Child Neglect Charges
At the Bradenton home on an unrelated call, deputies said they found urine and feces on the floors, bed bugs in the beds and no power in the home.
Two teenagers were removed from a Bradenton home that deputies found to be covered with urine and feces and without power, officials said Thursday.
Patrol units showed up at the home in the 1700 block of Marilyn Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Thursday on an unrelated call when they discovered the filthy conditions, the Bradenton Herald reports.
The floors were covered with animal feces and urine and the beds "infected with bed bugs," according to a Manatee County Sheriff's report.
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"There were dishes piled up in the sink and the bathroom floors were covered in urine and feces," the report states.
A 15-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl were removed from the home.
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The parents, 57-year-old Marvin Nichols and 47-year-old Lori Nichols, are charged with child neglect.
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