depending on how long it sat there.....you might want to haul it outside before you clean it. that smell will get into fabrics and rugs and be hell to get out.
the smell of a refrigirator that's been turned off and closed up for a month is literally a breath-taking experience. stuff you wouldn't think could rot....like corn meal...will hatch out in flies. think about that.
many people just put duct tape around their refrigirators and set them out on the street, with graffiti about FEMA sprayed on them. you couldn't get the smell out of the seals, or the stain off the interior.
worst one I saw...smelled, really...was my hunting buddy/neighbor who had a big chest freezer we use mostly for game. probably had a dozen ducks, Lord knows how many bags of trout filets, and lots of bait shrimp, saved for the winter. when he opened that thing...three weeks after Katrina, it was a soup of mung with a smell that would knock a buzzard off a [bleep], with blue flies buzzing all over it trying to get in for the goodies.
let your boy work on the cleanup...he won't do that again.
