{"id":19364,"date":"2026-07-01T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=19364"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:03:28","slug":"authorities-charge-4-adults-after-16-children-rescued-from-dilapidated-ohio-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=19364","title":{"rendered":"Authorities charge 4 adults after 16 children rescued from dilapidated Ohio home"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and JOHN SEEWER<\/strong><\/p>\n

HAMDEN, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Sixteen children from the same family\u00a0who were rescued\u00a0from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio were living in wretched conditions with human waste all around, confined to just one room over much of the past four years, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>

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Some of the children discovered Tuesday were unable to speak and one \u2014 an 18-year-old who was developmentally disabled \u2014 could not even write her name, investigators said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of our livestock was kept in better conditions than the children,\u201d said Vinton County Sheriff Ryan Cain. \u201cJust a disgusting scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

The children\u2019s parents and two grandparents were charged with felony child endangerment, a prosecutor said. Officials emphasized the case involved one family.<\/p>\n

Authorities found the children while carrying out a search warrant in an unrelated investigation, Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson said Wednesday at a news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t know there were going to be 16 kids there,\u201d said Wilson, who was nearly at a loss for words in describing what officials found in the tiny village of Hamden that sits in one of Ohio\u2019s poorest counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the type of thing that we\u2019re not used to seeing here in America,\u201d he said.<\/p>

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