Social workers in Pike County, Mississippi say they found an alligator being kept in an aquarium inside a home of seven neglected children.
Randy Boyd, the supervisor for the state Department of Human Services in Pike County, told the Enterprise-Journal that an anonymous caller reported the situation.
When DHS workers responded to the call, they found the alligator in a four-foot long aquarium and that it was “very aggressive.” Conservation officer Sheila Smith says the aquarium was filthy.
DHS workers took care of the children, and wildlife conservation officers took the alligator during the May 2 response to the call.
DHS cases are confidential, and officials aren’t releasing identities of the children or the address of the house.
Social workers are not allowed to reveal the identities of the parent or parents who abandoned the children either, but I’ve got the perfect punishment lined up once they’re found.
Make the people responsible for neglecting those kids clean up the filthy aquarium using a toothbrush. Once the aquarium is spotless, make the parent(s) crawl inside, then put the gator in their with them.
Justice served.
