‘She was hungry’: Mother forced 3-year-old daughter who was ‘acting out’ to live with lice in her hair, cockroaches all over her clothes, police say

A Florida woman is accused of letting her 3-year-old daughter live in filth, including with a “severe infestation of lice in her hair.”

Roslain Perdomo, 36, is in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a charge of child neglect without great bodily harm. The underlying incident occurred on Sunday.

A Miami Police Department officer was patrolling the area of Northwest Fourth Avenue and Northwest Eighth Street in Miami when he “observed a nude adult female with a nude female child” on the corner of the intersection, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime. He asked the adult what was going on and whether she needed help…

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