A husband and wife in Wisconsin have been arrested after they allegedly left their six children — four of whom were under the age of 6 — locked inside a storage unit with only a bucket to use as a restroom.

Charles A. Dupriest, 33, and Azyia C. Zielinski, 26, were taken into custody earlier this week and charged with six counts each of child neglect, court records obtained by Law&Crime show. Dupriest was also charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

According to the criminal complaint, officers with the Milwaukee Police Department at about 1:33 a.m. on Tuesday responded to a report of a crying child inside a locked storage unit at the Storsafe in the 5500 block of North 27th Street. The caller told the dispatcher they were concerned for the welfare of the baby.

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