A 28-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with child neglect after her 2-year-old son was found wandering in a Surprise neighborhood shoeless, partially clothed and covered in animal feces, police said.

At 4:55 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, Surprise police responded to a home in the area of 135th and Gelding Drive after someone who lives in the neighborhood found the boy.

“Officers observed that the child was only partially clothed and had no shoes on his feet. He was also filthy and covered in what later was determined to be animal feces,” police said.

After receiving information from several callers, police officers went to the boy’s home and found the front door wide open and several large dogs roaming in the front yard, according to authorities.

They found the boy’s mother, 28-year-old Cheyanne Finney, at the home.

Finney said she was unaware the boy was out of the home, police said.

The interior of the home was described as “deplorable” and “unfit living conditions,” police reported.

Officers described the “overpowering smell of animal feces and urine.”

According to police the air conditioner in the home was not working.

Finney was arrested by Surprise police and booked into the Maricopa County Jail on one count of child neglect, a class 5 felony.

The child was turned over to the custody of the Department of Child Safety.