A Missouri couple allegedly forced their children to live in a trailer crawling with “hundreds of black flies and cockroaches” on top of mounds of rotten food and human waste — conditions so vile that at least one of the kids was sleeping on an entertainment center “to get away” from everything, according to police.

“The entire floor of the residence throughout the house was covered in garbage, rotting food and other trash,” according to the probable cause affidavit for Mateo Luna, 27, and his girlfriend Stephanie Passley, 26, who are each charged with four counts of child abuse and neglect . They have four children between the ages of 8 months and 9 years old, police say.

“To be honest, I don’t cry a whole lot at some of these cases,” said Butler County Sheriff’s Department Investigator

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