A Volusia County mother is behind bars after deputies say she allowed her three children to live in “horrific” conditions described by the sheriff as a “house of horror.”

Jacqueline Daniel was arrested Monday at her home on West New York Avenue in Orange City. Latest Forecast

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Deputies originally responded to help the Department of Children and Families check on the children but found what Sheriff Mike Chitwood called “the worst house in the world … completely overwhelmed with roaches, lice, black mold, feces, and trash piled high.”

One of the children, 10 years old, had to be hospitalized due to a severe lice infestation. Doctors reportedly shaved the child’s hair to treat scabs and lice in the hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes.

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