An Oklahoma couple was arrested this month after their two small boys were found covered in feces in a home so horrid that authorities were forced to wear hazmat suits when they entered, according to police.

Three children under the age of five were saved from the revolting home on Sept. 12 and Dakota Dodd, 24, and Aubrianna Freeman, 22, were taken into custody on child neglect charges.

Oklahoma City police said officers arrived at the home after a concerned neighbor called in a tip. Police were led to a bedroom by Dodd where the boys, ages 3 and 4, were reportedly found with dried feces on them.

“Feces on the walls, feces on the kids. It was a completely disgusting scene,” Oklahoma City police Master Sgt. Gary Knight told KOCO.

“When they went inside, the officers described almost becoming overcome by the smell of feces and urine inside the residence.”

The young victims had “feces caked into their fingernail beds, palms of their hands, feet, legs, and faces,” according to a police report obtained by Law and Crime.

The report detailed the horrid conditions of the entire home, including “piles of what appeared to be human feces” on the second floor and a bedroom floor “covered in multiple piles of smeared and flattened human feces,” according to the outlet.

Because the conditions were so stomach-turning, investigators later wore hazmat suits when probing the crime scene, KOCO reported.

Dodd, who is reportedly the boys’ stepfather, allegedly admitted to police to locking the children in the dirty room for more than 12 hours daily so Freeman, their mother, could sleep and to “keep the kids safe due to the neighborhood,” News 9 reported, citing the police report.

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    7 days ago

    I am always shocked by this because I just personally couldn’t imagine living in those conditions for a second…

    Like, I can imagine drug addicts casually neglecting their kids, failing to brush their teeth, feeding them junk food, giving them unlimited screen time to shut them up, locking them in rooms, and failing to keep them in fresh, clean clothes… I don’t approve of it, but I understand the logic of this happening after a series of bad decisions…

    But it takes a massive breakdown, IMO, to just be in a scenario where you are casually accepting the fact that children are covered in literal feces and trodding over piles of shit in the vicinity. I just don’t get it.