MAGNOLIA, Ark -

UPDATE [5/17/17 1:45 P.M.]

The parents of the 15-day-old baby who was found seriously injured with nearly 100 rodent bites were in court this morning. Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Erica Shryock, 19, and Charles Elliott, 18, were arrested Sunday when the baby was taken to the hospital and was discovered to have about 100 rodent bites scattered on her body.

The infant even needed to have facial reconstruction surgery due to a one-inch-wide wound down to its skull from rats. Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Erica Shryock

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Police found evidence of a rodent problem as well as blood at the home where Shryock, Elliot, the baby and other roommate lived.

Shryock and Elliot each got a $15,000 bond and it was ordered that they cannot have contact with anyone under the age of 12.

We'll have a full report with more details coming up tonight on NBC 10 News at 5 p.m. Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Charles Elliot

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UPDATE [5/16/2017 10:00 p.m.]

A baby just 15 days old was hospitalized at the Magnolia Regional Hospital Tuesday afternoon.

Why she's there is enough to make some people sick.

"Wow," resident Herme Delacruz said, as he looked at the incident's police report.

"It's horrible, a little baby was eaten at by a rat," he added.

Investigators said the infant was nearly eaten alive by rats, with as many as 100 bite marks on her tiny arms, body and face.

One wound was so severe, that you could even see the child's skull.

"I was surprised because no one expects that to happen to a little boy or girl," Delacruz added.

Police spoke to the child's mother, Erica Shyrock, who said she put the baby asleep at 5:30 that morning and woke up to screaming two hours later.

She said the infant was covered in blood.

The father, Charles Elliot, said he tried to clean this up, but said there were bloody rodent footprints all over the baby bed.

"It's sick," resident Sabrina Spikes said. "For them rats to be there and for their poop to be there? They had been in that baby's crib eating on that baby for a long time."

The parents said they knew they had a rat problem, but did nothing about it.

They went on to say they didn't tell police because they didn't want their daughter to be quote 'taken away'.

"I can't believe the baby is ok," Spikes added.

Doctors said the baby is recovering, but had to go through reconstructive surgery to her face.

The two parents were arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor.

They will appear in court Wednesday morning.

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A Magnolia, Arkansas couple is in jail after taking their 15-day-old infant daughter to the hospital with rodent bites.

The Magnolia, Arkansas Police Department arrested Charles Elliot, 18, and Erica Shryock, 19, on Sunday, May 14, 2017.