A daycare provider is cited for child neglect after leaving three children home alone.

Health and Human Services received a report of unsanitary conditions from a home where 34-year-old Becky Ryan operates a daycare for the state.

When officers arrived on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m., they found Ryan's 10-year-old daughter and two other children, 10 and 8, home alone. The 10 and 8-year-old children were daycare customers.

Ryan was at the gym and had to take her son to the dentist. She said she told the customer's mom they would be home alone. The mother said Ryan didn't mention they'd be without a caretaker.

Ryan also said she thought it would be okay to leave them alone because she didn't charge for the day. The daycare is supposed to run 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday at 4211 N. 11th St.

Ryan was cited and released for child neglect.