A Florida couple was arrested Tuesday after they left their five children in a disgusting apartment with no food, electricity, or working plumbing .

Sanel Canovic, 40, and Azra Nikocevic, 33, were charged with fice counts each of child neglect with no great bodily harm, WTVJ reported.

An arrest report says police were called Tuesday afternoon when a witness saw one of their children, a 6-year-old, crossing the street in a high-traffic area with no supervision. Police arrived and found the boy, who led them to his apartment nearby.

“The kid didn’t look very clean,” the witness said. “I think he was still wearing school uniform even though school has been out for a couple of days. His clothes were oversized and his iPad was broken, I don’t know, there was something that told me he wasn’t being taken care of.”

The arrest report said the couple’s oldest child, a 12-year-old girl, answered the door when officers arrived. There were three other children in the apartment as well. Officers found a non-functioning stove and stagnant water and feces in the non-working toilet. There was also no toilet paper in the house, and the children told the officers they take showers after using the toilet.

The children said there’d been no electricity in the apartment for about two months. They also said they hadn’t eaten since about 10 p.m. on Monday.

Officers brought them to the police station to be fed and cared for while police looked for the parents. The children said that Nikocevic worked in a hotel in Miami, but they didn’t know where their father worked.

In an interview, the 12-year-old girl said she took care of her younger siblings while her parents work and that all five children shared a full-sized bed.

“You ea at school, so you don’t eat at home,” she said her father told them.

The girl said the children were hungry often during the holiday break, depending on their parents to bring home food. Sometimes, she said, her mother left a little money to buy food at McDonald’s.

“The parents would frequently share a meal in the evening without providing food for the children,” the reports said. “They would often leave the children at home while they went out to dinner.”

The girl also told investigators that it had been two weeks since the adults did laundry, so the children frequently wore dirty clothes.

Police eventually found Nikocevic, who came to the police station and explained they were behind on their bills and there’d been no electricity for about six weeks. She said she was trying to get assistance and denied depriving the children.

Canovic later came to the police station and spoke with investigators through a Croatian interpreter. He declined to give a statement and requested an attorney.

“The defendant and co-defendant willfully failed to provide adequate care, supervision, and the basic necessities required to maintain the victims’ physical and mental health,” the report said.

Nikocevic and Canovic were booked into jail. Nikocevic was released on her own recognizance, Law&Crime reported, while Canovic remains jailed on a $7,500 bond. The couple is due in court on January 30.

The status of the children is unclear.

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[Featured image: Azra Nikocevic and Sanel Canovic/Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation]