2023-05-28 01:08:37
Parents have been charged in Pennsylvania following seven children were found living in a home with rats in cages and a padlocked refrigerator, police say.
Both parents were arrested following authorities found ‘unsanitary’ and ‘unsafe’ living conditions; feces were even found on the ground, according to CNN.
The police intervention came following reports that three children had entered an abandoned trailer, north of Philadelphia.
When the police found the children, they took them home, near the abandoned caravan. It was there that the police observed the living conditions in which these children lived.
The mother, Crystal Robertson, told police she locked the fridge because her children were “stealing” everything and called her children “legged garbage disposals”, according to the affidavit.
When officers later returned, following filing a report to Children’s Services, they discovered four more children.
One of the rooms housed two dozen caged rats.
“There was also a very bad smell, and bugs,” the affidavit reads. It was also noted that “two dogs, two turtles, two rabbits, snakes, toads and a four-legged reptile” were also in the house.
The children were taken into the care of child protection and transported to a hospital for treatment.
Further investigations revealed that none of the seven children had attended school and that they lacked basic knowledge. They also showed signs of anxiety, according to police.
Medical assessments also concluded that the children were “clinically underweight and malnourished”.
“The children’s personal hygiene was worrying, and two of the children even had to have their hair shaved,” authorities said.
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