A FedEx worker rescued a five-year-old boy that was allegedly left alone in a rat infested, feces covered apartment in the Bronx, where he was trying to deliver a package.
The boy’s parents, Wilfred Lewis, 59, and Charlotte Lewis, 48, were arrested after the delivery worker knocked on the door of the Kingsbridge Ave apartment around 11:30am Friday morning and found the boy alone. When the little boy answered, the FedEx worker asked where his parents were.
The five-year-old responded, ‘They’re not home.’
The view of the hellish conditions inside the rat infested, feces covered apartment in the Bronx where a five-year-old was allegedly left to fend for himself —
Charlotte Lewis, 48, (pictured with her children) is a nurse and Montefiore Hospital, police arrested her there on Friday
Door to apartment 2J where a FedEx worker discovered boy, 5, was left alone in vile conditions
The worker left the building and flagged down an officer for help, according to the NY Post.
When police broke open the door they say they found the child alone in the apartment with feces smeared on the walls, roaches, bed bugs, maggots and even rats running around the squalid apartment.
The boy told police he had not seen his parents since Thursday night.
Authorities say the horrific conditions were made worse for the boy left to fend for himself, as there was no food in the fridge, according to the DailyNews.
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. ……Read more: