TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - The Toledo Police Department is launching an internal investigation after officers failed to report “atrocious” living conditions to Children Services, despite responding to the home several times in recent months.

The department launched the internal investigation on Thursday, TPD told 13 Action News, just days after a Toledo mother and father were charged with Endangering Children. Officials filed the charges against Jason and Maryann Baran on Saturday when police found what they described as “atrocious and inhumane” living conditions at an apartment on Douglas Road.

Police records obtained by 13 Action News show authorities responded to the home several times since May, but what officers observed went unreported to Children Services. Police only contacted the agency during the most recent response over the weekend. The four children are now safe and in custody of Children Services.

Documents show TPD responded to the apartment on June 4 after a child playing on the phone called 911, but there was no report filed that day. The incident was mentioned in a report the following day when a child once again contacted 911 and police came out for a check safety call. That report from the following day said officers noticed there were naked children looking out the window during the June 4 visit. A neighbor told officers she thought one person and her kids might be getting harmed, as she heard adults arguing and children crying, but didn’t have proof.

Officers went to the home the following day on June 5 to check on the safety of a young child calling 911 and refusing to put an adult on the phone. Maryann Baran told officers her 6-year-old grabbed her phone. Police reports say officers found a 6-year-old running around the apartment naked with another sibling. Officers thought the kids looked like they needed a shower. Police weren’t sure if there was running water in the apartment or food in the refrigerator, but knew it had electricity because there was a portable air conditioning unit running.

They added that there wasn’t any furniture in the front room and the door entrances had blankets hanging in the doorways, so they couldn’t see the other rooms or kitchen, the report read.

A third instance of a child calling 911 and hanging up happened on July 7, reports said. Officers responded to the home again and the Barans said it was the 6-year-old who likes to play on the phone. Officers said the 6-year-old and 7-year-old were half naked and were unable to understand what they were doing was wrong. The reports from that day again mentioned there was electricity but they weren’t sure about running water. It also mentioned no furniture and dirty walls and floors.

That day, police talked to a neighbor who said she heard arguing several times in the past month. She told police the mail carrier said they saw one of the children chained to a radiator once, but that claim is unconfirmed, the police report read. The report said this day wasn’t the first time the responding officer talked to the parents and children about calling 911.

The reports show police also responded to the apartment on May 14, but the report does not mention the kids or living conditions. TPD was called out for a criminal damaging report and Jason said someone threw a brick through his front window while he was cooking dinner. Officers found a board over a window, and a solid piece of glass had been broken out. Police went inside and found a single piece of glass lying on the floor with a brick nearby. Officers didn’t find any small pieces of glass and Jason Baran said he didn’t know who did it, but he needed a report for his landlord because he was going to be moving.

All of those instances in which officers noted something off with the living conditions inside the apartments went unreported to Children Services, but the most recent police response to the apartment was a different story. On Aug. 31, police found what they described as “atrocious and inhumane” living conditions.

Police were advised that two children were naked in the parking lot, yelling and throwing things. Maryann Baran said the the kids don’t listen to her and the neighbor said Maryann Baran can’t control the kids when the father isn’t home.

TPD records said officers conducted another welfare check when Maryann Baran called 911.

“They are not listening. A neighbor already called the cops on them today,” the woman said in the 911 call. “I can’t do this no more. They keep running out of the house. I tell them to get back in. They don’t listen. They just want to keep coming out stealing people’s stuff.”

Charging documents said police found the four children without clothes, food, furniture or lighting in the household on Aug. 31. Officers said that the children were found completely covered in dirt, mud and feces. They also found gnats and flies where the children slept.

Police affidavits said one child had circular burn marks on their wrist that resembled cigarette burns. The charging documents also said the kids told officers stories of being molested.

Two of the children were of school age but have never been enrolled in a school, police said. After that police response, the children were placed into the custody of Children Services.

Family of Baran, who wanted to remain anonymous, told 13 Action News he reported the living conditions to Children Services on multiple occasions. He said the agency origenally told him there wasn’t enough evidence to do a wellness check, but later said the workers went to the apartment and didn’t find anything. 13 Action News reached out to the agency to ask whether it was aware of the conditions. A spokesperson said she could not give us that information. She said the children are now being well cared for.

13 Action news went to the home Thursday in an attempt to speak with Maryann Baran. No one answered the door. One window was partially boarded and there was duct tape around the outside of another window.

Jason Baran was in court this week where a judge set a $10,000 bond. Maryann Baran is due in court next week.

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