TULSA, Okla.  — Authorities in Oklahoma have arrested a pregnant mother of 12 and the man she was living with on complaints of child neglect after they say the children were kept in a trash-strewn home without running water and with collapsing ceilings.

Kodi Faircloth, 38, and the 41-year-old man were arrested last week and were jailed Tuesday on $50,000 bond. The man has an additional bond set for nearly $7,000 on other complaints, including second-degree burglary and having no driver’s license.

The pair hasn’t been charged and no attorney information for either suspect was listed in jail records. Faircloth is set for arraignment Thursday; the man is due in court Monday. A spokeswoman for the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office said formal charges could be filed Wednesday.

Faircloth has had at least 33 Oklahoma Department of Human Services referrals and investigations, according to a police search warrant affidavit.

Tulsa Police Det. Aubrie Thompson said Tuesday that four of the children were taken into DHS custody before the arrests and authorities were still trying to locate the other eight. One child apparently ran away from home, she said.

The DHS employee photographed the conditions of the home before reporting the situation to the police. When officers came to the house, Faircloth told authorities that she has been blind since she was 7 years old and was three months pregnant with her 13th child, Thompson said. Thompson said authorities believe the 12 children are biologically hers. It was not immediately clear if she is blind.

“It’s just a continued neglect throughout these children’s lives and that’s what’s so tragic,” Thompson said.

In addition to trash littered feet deep in some areas of the house and a yard filled with trash and mattresses — which Faircloth said she put outside more than three months ago because they were infested with bed bugs — a box of drugs, including methamphetamine, was found in the backyard in a hole covered with leaves, according to the affidavit.

Sheree Powell, a DHS spokeswoman, said she could not comment specifically on Faircloth’s case, citing state and federal confidentiality laws that only allow the agency to release summaries of its investigations into child welfare histories when a child dies and the person responsible for the care of the child is charged in the death.

Powell said it’s not unusual for some parents in Oklahoma to have multiple interactions with agencies like DHS, police and the court system during their adult lives.

“According to the search warrant (affidavit), she has 12 kids. If you think about it, 33 DHS referrals or investigations, you can have multiple referrals on the same incident; you can have referrals coming in from a variety of sources, and not all referrals result in investigations.”

This story first appeared in The Claremore (Okla.) Progress