Don't Want to Pay For a Sitter? Tie'em Up in the Backyard.

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A Florida mom left her two young boys alone at home for hours, tying one to a sliding door with two belts and leaving both in diapers overflowing with their own filth, police charge.

Derek Riley, a driver for the furniture store Rent-a-Center, told cops that he was visiting a customer in Orlando on Tuesday when he noticed two little boys, about 2 and 5, playing by themselves in a fenced-in backyard.

He noticed something stranger about the older of the boys: two belts tied his left ankle up to a sliding glass door.

'They had him like an animal in there,' Riley told WFTV. 'That was really shocking to me.'

'You know how you would tie your dog to a tree outside?' he added. 'It was like that circumstance a little bit.'

Ryan knocked on the front door but nobody answered.

He called the Orange County Sheriff's Office, whose deputies barged into the front door and found the children by themselves.

The boys reeked of urine, and both were wearing diapers that appeared to not have been changed in some time.

The 5-year-old boy, who was tied to the door, had a raw ankle that indicated he was routinely left like this for hours at a time. He could not reach the bathroom, food or water from where he was.

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'They shouldn't have kids, simple — they shouldn't,' Riley told WFTV. 'Not everybody should be able to have kids.'