A Deltona woman and her husband were charged with child neglect after deputies found four children alone in a dirty house when they responded to a domestic disturbance call, a Volusia County Sheriff's Office report said.
When deputies arrived at the residence on Tuesday, four children — ages 1, 1, 4 and 7 — were found alone with broken glass, food and liquid on the floor throughout the house and the rear sliding glass door open. The house also had a strong odor of "fecal matter and rotten food," the report states.
Aisha Pounds, 26, was charged with four counts of child neglect. She was released from the Volusia County Branch Jail on Wednesday after posting $6,000 bail. She could not be reached by phone.
Deputies are looking for her husband, whose name has been redacted from the report. He is being charged with four counts of child neglect and one count of child abuse after the 4-year-old told a deputy the laceration on his head was caused by the husband.
Ingrid Laughlin, 52, told deputies that she had received a call from her daughter, Aisha Pounds, stating that she was getting choked by her husband and that she wanted her mother to call police.
The police report states they got a call that a female was "just choked by her husband" and they were "currently still arguing."
Pounds stated that she had been in an argument with her husband because the children had spilled cereal throughout the house. She said that nothing had gotten physical and that she meant to say she "needed help because she needed to leave or she was going to choke someone," not that she was being choked.
The children told deputies that the husband ran out the back door before officers arrived.