Two children and an 83-year-old woman were removed from a Jersey City home when a team from Jersey City’s Quality of Life Task Force found the home covered in dog feces, as well as flies and fleas.

The home, at 54 Wayne St., was declared uninhabitable, said Jacob V. Hudnut, the city municipal prosecutor who heads the task force.

Bernadette Bisogno, 45, the kids’ mother and daughter of the senior in the home, was arrested outside her home and charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of neglecting the elderly.

Nine mixed breed dogs, which were not licensed and were covered in fleas, were removed from the home by Liberty Humane Society. The odor coming from the home "could be noticed across the street,” said the source, who was not authorized to speak on the record.

The task force was alerted to the situation by neighbors, who were dealing with the fleas, mosquitos and smells coming from the home. Neighbors were also concerned that they hadn’t seen Bisogno’s mother recently, the source said.

One neighbor said she couldn’t go outside, even for a minute, without getting five mosquito bites. The smell of dog urine and feces on the back deck made it impossible for neighbors to use their backyards.

“This task force response is a demonstration of the importance of neighbors reporting concerns to the Residents’ Response Center,” said Hudnut. “Without the neighborhood alerting us to these conditions, we wouldn’t never been able to take this response and go in to provide help to those who needed it.”

The task force includes representatives from city agencies such as the police and fire departments, the Department of Public Works, Health and Human Services, Housing Code Enforcement, Zoning Department, Buildings Department and the Division of Commerce.

The two children, a 12- and 16-year-old boy, were both covered in fleas. The Division of Child Protection and Permanency, New Jersey’s child protection agency, took custody of the two children.

The dogs also appeared to have mange, a skin disease caused by parasitic mites.

One of the two two bathrooms in the story-home had no running water and had corroded sinks and bathtubs, the source said. The entire second floor, where the dogs were kept, was covered with feces.

The kitchen and three refrigerators were filled with stale, expired and moldy food, and there was no fresh food in the home, the source said.

Bisogno was known to verbally harass and threaten people. In one incident, the source said, she yelled and spit at a driver, then instructed her son to chase him and “f--- him up.”

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