SCHENECTADY – It was a nightmare on Elmer Street.

According to Assistant Schenectady County District Attorney John Carson, Chief of the Special Victims Unit, the younger brother of the five year old girl allegedly starved to death by her father tested positive for cocaine.

How the drug got into the 3-year old’s body and why the little girl allegedly received no food or water over a five day period, remains under investigation, Carson said.

Regarding whether or not the girl has traces of cocaine in her system, authorities say, will be answered by autopsy results.

Even if no one knows for sure what was going on inside 203 Elmer St. in Schenectady, neighbors have long had their suspicions.

“I noticed from the day he first moved in when he started having a whole bunch of company come through,” said one Elmer Street neighbor who requested anonymity. “There was a variety of people. They were older guys and they were younger guys. I for one didn’t know what he was dealing with.”

Robert Buskey, 33, a former mixed martial arts fighter, lived in the first-floor flat with his two children. It’s unclear if any other adult lived with them. At the current time, the children’s mother doesn’t seem to be in the picture, authorities said.

Carson describes recent activity in the apartment as a series of “horrific circumstances” that turned deadly for an innocent little girl.

Buskey has been charged with manslaughter and child Endangerment. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, the most serious of which alleges his daughter received no food or water for five straight days, which authorities say caused the girl’s death.

“That’s ridiculous, totally ridiculous,” a neighbor said. “I know for a fact that he ordered food to that apartment. I don’t think they cooked because he had food delivered to that house every single day. I don’t see how the kid could have starved.”

The DA says the little boy did receive fluids and is expected to make a full physical recovery.

“They were nice kids. They were beautiful kids from what I saw. They didn’t deserve that,” a neighbor asserted. “He had no business with them kids and he should have just given them to the state and he would have been done with it.”

Buskey is due back in court this coming Friday at which time prosecutors, believing he is a flight risk, will request that no bail be granted.