Two parents in Lake County, Fla., were arrested after their children were found living in a filthy home without running water, according to a Local 6 News report. Police arrested Christine Foels and her fiancée Christopher Curran after receiving an anonymous call from a neighbor about their filthy home. The pair was living in the home with two girls, ages 5 and 4 months.
"Investigators with the Department of Children and Families said the conditions were more than disturbing," Local 6 reporter Louis Bolden said. "They said it was criminal."
Officers said a refrigerator inside the home was filled with rotting food. Also, the house has not had running water in more than a month, so the toilets were filled with feces.
"They bathed in a pond that was in the back of the property," Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Christine Mysinger said.
The baby's crib was also used as a trash bin, the report said.
Foels said her family is just going through some financial problems. She said she has not done anything wrong.
"I don't deserve this," Foels said. "I didn't do anything wrong. I'm not a bad mother. I'm doing everything they are asking me to do and now I'm here."
Foels and Curran are being held in the Lake County Jail on $5,000 bond.
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