A Volusia County woman is accused of neglecting a 5-year-old boy, admitting that she only fed him "every three or four days" or when she noticed he was hungry because he would "chew on his hands," police said.

5-year-old boy found weighing 24.9 pounds in Volusia home

The child can't speak, walk or stand and appeared dehydrated

24-year-old woman was charged with child neglect

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Naomie Hall, 24, of Daytona Beach, was arrested Thursday on a charge of neglect of a child causing great bodily harm.

According to a Daytona Beach Police report, an investigator with the Department of Children and Families responded to a Daytona Beach home for a follow-up investigation.

The investigator noticed the 5-year-old boy "appeared dehydrated, thin and had dry skin," a report states. The victim also appeared to be eating old cereal from the "carpeted and filthy" living room floor.

The child lives in the home with Hall, the woman's husband and two other children.

A report states Hall admitted to the DCF investigator that she didn't give the child his prescribed medications and made no attempt to feed him.

The child can't speak, walk or stand and weighs 24.9 pounds, a report states.

Hall told the investigator that she doesn't communicate with the child, adding: "She checks on him randomly and determines if he may need something by his facial expressions."

The child doesn't have any form of education and hasn't been taught to communicate.

Police said Hall lives within walking distance of a doctor, but she stopped giving the child prescribed medication because it made him "sleepy and did not work for him." When she called the doctor's office, she was directed to continue giving the medication to the child. Hall told the investigator she understood the doctor's orders, but she refused to give the child his medication.

DCF took custody of the child and transported him to Halifax Hospital, where he was examined by a doctor.

Hall was being held on $35,000 bond.