A Milwaukee woman is getting a mental assessment after she was arrested over a gruesome and disturbing find in her apartment, Wisconsin police said.

Investigators initially responded to a call reporting a foul smell from the apartment near North 27th and State streets. Shyanna Brothers, 28, told police that the smell was coming from old food before they found a cardboard box in a locked room.

'I saw her out here. She asked me for some change, and then she stated that it was so stinky in her house, and she couldn't go in.'

Police said the large box was surrounded by hundred of flies, and they found the remains of a decomposing baby inside. The rest of the room was empty.

"Bodily fluids from [the child's] body were soaking the bottom of the cardboard box," the criminal complaint reads

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