By Russell Colburn
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A mother told Action News that she found bedbugs in her motel room in Northwest Jacksonville.
She was hospitalized with bites all over her body.
The mother says she and her 8-year-old son were sleeping in a room at Sunshine Inn with bedbugs. She was able to capture a few of them, but says there were many more crawling all over them.
“I looked in the mirror and noticed this here, up here,” Anita Mitchell said. “It's more than 20, 20 bites that I got.”
“I had the guy that was living next to me come in the room to flip the mattress over. When he flipped the mattress over we saw two bugs, two bedbugs. Then we saw more and more,” Mitchell said.
Mitchell said that fortunately, her son was not bitten and she immediately sent him home with his father.
Action News visited the motel. We were initially told to leave, but later manager Vijay Patel let us into a room.
“Do you believe there are bedbugs in room 20?” Action News reporter Russell Colburn asked.
“I don't believe it,” Patel said.
But he wouldn't let Action News into Room 20, saying he's been spraying insecticide as a precaution.
“If you want to see any other room, I can show you, I don't have any problem, but I cannot allow you to enter in room 20,” Patel said.
Mitchell said he has something to hide. But you can't hide the bites on her body, or the bugs in her photos.
“I feel disgusting and knowing that I see them, I just feel gross. It feels like just not even want to be in my skin right now,” Mitchell said.
Mitchell said she will be filing a complaint against the motel and she could be taking legal action.
Florida's Department Business and Professional Regulation handles motel complaints.
The Sunshine Inn passed its last inspection and has no previous complaints about bedbugs.
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