Parents allegedly passed out drunk on beach vacation while their kids wandered away

Police have unleashed on a pair of “clowns” who were found on a beach in Florida, but it’s what they did that’s left authorities furious.

A Georgia couple in the US allegedly passed out drunk on a Florida beach while their five and seven-year-old children wandered off — in a case that has shocked even the local sheriff.

Local police desperately tried eight times to wake Alyssia Langley and her fiance Timothy Stephens, both 27, as they lay in the sand on Daytona Beach on Saturday afternoon while on holiday, according to an affidavit obtained by Fox 35 Orlando.

One of the officers could be seen in body camera footage nudging Stephens as his arm was wrapped around his girlfriend.

“Hey. The sheriff’s office! Wake up!” she yelled in the footage obtained by Fox 35.

After police were able to rouse the couple, they seemed confused.

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A Georgia couple has been arrested after they allegedly passed out drunk on the beach while their children ran off.

An officer could be heard asking the couple where their children are, to which Stephens just gestured toward the ocean as he stumbled in the sand.

“You don’t know where they are?” the officer asks.

Fortunately, the children were found safe — but unsupervised — splashing in their hotel pool nearby.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said he had trouble believing the parents could be so negligent when he read the arrest report.

Both Alyssia Langley and Timothy Stephens are facing felony child neglect charges.

Stephens is also facing charges for trying to escape and for possessing alcoholic beverages on the beach.

“I went and read the report and I’m like ‘You got to be kidding me,’” he told Fox 35.

“It just boggles my mind that you would drive here and get obliterated and allow a five and a seven-year-old to wander off.”

Both Langley and Stephens are now facing neglect charges, and Stephens is also facing charges for trying to escape and for possessing alcoholic beverages on the beach, according to Fox News.

He was seen in body camera footage getting free from the police and running away, before he quickly face-planted in the sand and knocked himself out.

Stephens was seen in body camera footage getting free from the police and running away, before he quickly face-planted in the sand and knocked himself out.

An arrest document also notes that an open beer can was found near Stephen’s hands, along with multiple empty beer cans and an empty bottle of whisky in a cooler nearby, “and other various, unsealed alcoholic beverages in the immediate vicinity,” Fox reports.

He is not the children’s biological father but has “assumed a guardian role,” according to Fox.

Body camera footage showed Stephens apparently visibly confused as Volusia County police asked him where his children were.

“When we wonder what we see, why kids are the way they are, you gotta take a step back and look at who’s in charge,” Chitwood told Fox 35.

“And clearly these two clowns shouldn’t be in charge of — they can’t be in charge of themselves, let alone a five year old or a seven year old.”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and has been republished with permission