TAMARAC, Fla. -- A mother was arrested after police reportedly found her adult disabled children living in an apartment filled with garbage, feces, roaches and maggots.

Broward sheriff's deputies went to the apartment at 9400 Lime Bay Blvd. in Tamarac Wednesday in response to a report of child abuse. They said they made a routine check of the apartment and found "the living conditions deplorable," WPLG-TV reported. The stench was reportedly so bad that deputies had to put on masks and use oxygen tanks to enter the home.

The floors were covered with dog feces, and human waste from a broken toilet, deputies said.

A deputy said, "The conditions were not fit for a human being to live in." Two mentally challenged adults were in the apartment at the time. The 20-year-old woman and 23-year-old man were placed in an assisted-living facility. A dog that was also in the apartment was taken by Broward County Animal Control.

The mother of the disabled adults, Irene Cameron, was charged with aggravated abuse of disabled adults.

Neighbors said that Cameron is a "lovely lady." One said she must have "had some sort of breakdown" to have allowed this to happen, WPLG-TV reported. Another neighbor said she saw Cameron's children regularly getting onto a bus and they were "well-dressed."

Cameron was recently widowed. She is being held on $20,000 bond.