{"id":427823,"date":"2026-10-14T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427823\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:34:07","slug":"miami-dad-didnt-feed-kids-because-he-thought-government-was-putting-stuff-in-food-report-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427823\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami dad didn\u2019t feed kids because he thought government was putting \u2018stuff\u2019 in food, report says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Florida man accused of neglecting his children by keeping them in their rooms and depriving them of food, water and a bathroom was arrested on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Louis, 40, was charged with two counts of child neglect.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office, deputies arrived at a home in Miami to conduct a welfare check, and the victims said they told family members that they weren&#8217;t being fed for days, were only allowed to drink water from the shower, were kept inside their rooms and weren&#8217;t allowed to use the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest report said that the children would go days without food because Louis believed the government was putting stuff in their food.<\/p>\n<p>The children told deputies that they had a bucket in their room to go to the bathroom, and Louis would make them drink water from the shower, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Louis, the report said, also took the children out of school last August, and they haven&#8217;t returned and they weren&#8217;t home-schooled.<\/p>\n<p>He was then arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida man accused of neglecting his children by keeping them in their rooms and depriving them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1219,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-427823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}