Adults Arrested After 16 Children Are Found in Squalor in Rural Ohio

The children were hospitalized and two had to be airlifted to trauma centers. “One of the worst environments that I’ve seen,” the state’s attorney general said.

By Maia Spoto

Ohio authorities rescue 16 children confined to one room for four years

Parents and grandparents charged as police say case in Hamden not human trafficking but ‘intra-family situation’ Sixteen children were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio after being confined to just one room in “deplorable conditions” for much of the past four years, authorities said on Wednesday. The children, who officials said are from the same family and were living in squalor with human waste all around, ranged in age from one and a half to 18 and included boys and girls. Som...

By Lucy Campbell

16 children found living in 'deplorable' Ohio home conditions, 4 arrested: 'Pure evil'

Four people arrested after 16 children were found in deplorable conditions in Vinton County, Ohio, officials said. Two children were flown to trauma centers.

Sixteen children found in ‘deplorable’ home were part of same family, Ohio officials say

Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson said the conditions inside the house were ‘almost beyond comprehension’

By Julie Carr Smyth and John Seewer