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Mounir, left, and Rebecca El-Rhazouani of Phenix City were arrested Thursday and charged with child neglect in Daytona Beach Shores. (Volusia County jail)

An Alabama couple was arrested last week after they allegedly ignored pleas for help from one of their foster children, who was badly sunburned and dehydrated.

Hotel staff at the Hawaiian Inn in Daytona Beach Shores called the police on Thursday out of concern for the children, who are 5 and 2 years old. The workers said the parents, Mounir and Rebecca El-Rhazouani of Phenix City, appeared drunk and that they refused to take the children out of the sun multiple times.

Video footage from an officer's body camera, obtained by WKMG Local 6, shows hotel security telling the officers, "The child wanted to get out of the sun so bad that it was literally running to that door over there, screaming, trying to get in the door, and the father would not take the child inside."

Officers who responded to the call found the couple sitting alone by the pool, drinking beer.

The children were alone in the family's room, beer and a pocket knife were found within the children's reach the news station reported.

Scroll down to the end of the story to see video from the incident.

Rebecca El-Rhauzouani told police the baby has eczema, which caused the sunburned look. She also told the officers that she left the children alone in the room to retrieve their belongings.

"I was going to put them to bed, I promise; I was going to go get my stuff and go put them to bed," a tearful El-Rhauzouani is heard telling police as she is handcuffed and led out of the hotel.

Both parents were charged with two counts of child neglect and booked into the Volusia County jail. They have since been released.

It is unclear how long the couple has been fostering the children or how their arrest might affect custody.