Parents and grandparents face child endangerment charges; authorities rule out human trafficking. Ohio authorities have rescued 16 children from a rural home in Hamden, where they were allegedly confined to a single room in severely neglectful conditions for years.
Authorities in Ohio rescued 16 children from a dilapidated home in the rural village of Hamden after discovering they had allegedly been confined to a single room in "deplorable conditions" for much of the past four years.
The children, all from the same family, ranged in age from one-and-a-half to 18 years. Officials said they were living amid human waste and severe neglect. Some were unable to speak, while an 18-year-old with developmental disabilities could not spell her own name.
"Most of our livestock was kept in better conditions than the children," Vinton County Sheriff Ryan Cain said at a news conference, describing the home as having a high presence of bacteria and human faeces, The Guardian reports.
"Just a disgusting scene," he said.
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