Mom arrested after 9 kids found living in ‘deplorable conditions’ in Miami Gardens: Cops

A mother has been arrested after her nine young children were found living in “deplorable conditions” inside their Miami Gardens home, police said.

Ashley Lashay Jennings, 30, was arrested Friday on nine counts of child neglect with no great bodily harm, records showed.

Police initially responded to the 17600 block of Northwest 36th Avenue to a report of a possible fight, but when officers arrived they could hear children fighting at a home on Northwest 37th Avenue, an arrest report said.

Officers found the children who “appeared to be unbathed and covered in filth,” and made contact with their mother, Jennings, the report said…

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