July 1, 2026
“Pure Evil” 16 Kids Found In Deplorable Conditions; 2 Airlifted To Hospital
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RSS Feed A shocking story is breaking out of Southern Ohio: Authorities are calling the conditions 16 children were living in, unimaginable. The children, ranging in age from 18 months to 18-years-old, are all currently being medically evaluated, after two were in such critical condition, they had to be airlifted to level one trauma units. Several of the other kids are being described as in serious condition. Four adults are expected in court today to face 17 charges of child endangerment for what prosecutors are calling “pure evil.”
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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Wednesday, July first, and a developing story, one in which prosecutors are calling pure evil after sixteen kids were found and what's being described as indescribable conditions. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. Sixteen kids found, two of them in such bad shape they had to be airlifted to a hospital. I say that up front to say just how terrible of conditions they say these kids are in.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an absolute jaw dropping story, and we're going to learn a lot more details in the coming days, but what we do know so far is hard to get your head around.
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Speaker 3: Yes, those two kids who.
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Speaker 2: Had to be airlifted were actually airlifted to a Level one trauma, just to give you some perspective. And the other children, several of them, were in serious condition. All sixteen right now are being medically evaluated. And we're talking about kids ranging in age from eighteen months old to eighteen years old, a mix of boys and girls. And that's as specific as we've been given in terms of the details of who these kids are and in terms of who they belong to, we're not sure about that yet.
00:01:32
Speaker 1: We know some folks have been arrested, but we don't know who these kids are. We don't know what their relation is to each other, or relation to the adults that have now been arrested and charged with child endangerment and a whole host of charges that can continue to come and rooms right now, the authorities aren't giving a lot of details about the conditions, just describing them as the worst thing you've ever seen. And certainly an adult shouldn't be in it, and you certainly wouldn't put a child in it. But Rose, they're not exactly saying what was wrong with the kids, what the injuries were to the kids, but they're telling us this is.
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Speaker 3: A hell hole exactly.
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Speaker 2: We got this update last night when authorities and this is just to give you an idea where this is. This is in rural southern Ohio and they gave a press conference last night, and you could just tell how stunned everyone was who actually do know.
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Speaker 3: Some of these details.
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Speaker 2: And this is in a small town, less than a thousand people in this town. And interestingly enough, the local officials were quick to point out that these folks who have been arrested are not from the area. They painted a picture of them as traveling through or traveling to this area. And the only real picture I've seen online of the house, this thing is barely able to be described as a house.
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Speaker 3: It looks like a shack.
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Speaker 2: It has garbage all on the front part of it, and it looks tiny. So to imagine that there were sixteen children from eighteen months to eighteen years old in this home alongside four adults, so twenty people living in this tiny shack of a place, and the conditions inside described as horrific. The Sheriff's office said the scene was horrific. These are horrific allegations, but there is still an ongoing investigation, and.
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Speaker 3: Look, we're going to learn a lot more later today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're supposed to be in court today. A camera of this is a I'm not sure how quickly information you will come out of this tiny little area. I'm not familiar with it outside of Columbus. It's they call it a township or a village, even this tiny little place, so not a lot of folks, so we're all curious. I'm sure hopefully that local reporters will go there, But bro, we all have questions, and one of them is, as I saw from some of the local folks didn't even seem to be aware that there were kids in the house, like they didn't even know. They say, yeah, I come up and down the street all the time, I've never seen a kid. I don't know how you hide or keep sixteen kids out of public.
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Speaker 3: View, possibly with restraints.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen this before, sadly, rarely, thankfully, but yes, you hear about for whatever reason, adults chaining kids to beds. But clearly, if they weren't seen outside of the home, they were being forced in some way, shape or form to stay indoors, whether it was through mind control or physical control. But if these kids were never seen, that's hard to imagine when you've got sixteen kids inside a small space. And the people who have been arrested, we do have their names. They all have the same last name, so it's Gary Cider's senior, Gary said junior, Elizabeth Siders, and Christina Siders. So those are the four adults we don't have their ages who have been charged with seventeen counts of child endangerment. That's one count for each of the children found, and then one additional because it involves serious physical harm, and that's what We know that these kids were medically in trouble and two of them in trauma, but from being described as in serious condition to critical condition, it's hard to get your your head around what could possibly have been going on inside that home.
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Speaker 1: It could be physical injuries, could be malnourishment. I don't know. But if you got six that's sixteen miles to feed, so that people weren't familiar with these folks, so they that's a lot of food to carry around with you. You got to that's a big grocery bill. That's what is happening. So yeah, that's the I wonder if it is, if they are physical injuries and this is a abuse, you and try to understand why. But why are four people rolling around with sixteen kids? They're all their kids?
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Speaker 3: Possibly possibly, I think.
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Speaker 2: Look, they haven't come out and said that completely, but they did address there were rumors, you know, to hear that, yes, there are that many kids in a home with four adults. There were rumors circulating that this could have been like a human trafficking case. But authorities very much said no, that is not the case. This is not a human trafficking situation. But they didn't get into the details about how all these folks are related. I thought this was interesting because we heard from the prosecutor, we heard from the sheriff's deputies, and the prosecutor even said, when he was asked some questions that they have not been able to speak to these kids. They say they couldn't even get the names or any kind of contact information from any of these children because of the conditions they were in that truly their medical and physical and the safety of them was superseded them getting any details, any information from these children at this.
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Speaker 3: Point, because one of them is eighteen.
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Speaker 2: So, look, some of these kids are of age to be able to give full and detailed accounts of what they've been through to police.
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Speaker 1: Well, we wait, but yeah, first and foremost is going to make sure the kids are out of harm's way and are on the way to better health than they clearly are in.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and look, the prosecutor also made a point to say more charges are possible. A second search warrant has been issued for that home, so they're going to be bringing in they.
00:07:28
Speaker 3: Say, computer analysts.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be using lab analysts, so that would imply, look, there's something possibly on these computers. Obviously they're going to be doing forensics and lab testing in there, so that is where they are now.
00:07:42
Speaker 3: But just to hear the.
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Speaker 2: Prosecutor say the conditions, you can't even imagine people being in, let alone children being in when he described the home, and I thought this was pretty chilling. I've been doing these types of cases for a long time, a big portion of my career dedicated to prosecut these types of cases.
00:08:02
Speaker 3: This is pure evil what we saw down here today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm waiting for this hearing today what nine.
00:08:13
Speaker 2: Ten thirty local time, and we're hoping to get more details. When we come back, we're going to tell you what the governor of Ohio had to say about these horrific crimes and what happens next. Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are just starting to get some of the details of what was going on in southern Ohio, a small town, a tiny house that apparently had twenty people inside. Four adults now charged with child endangerment charges for sixteen kids found in that home, and the conditions.
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Speaker 3: Were so deplorable.
00:08:57
Speaker 2: All of them are in the hospital right now being medically evaluated. Two of them had to be flown to Level one trauma centers, and several of them are described as in serious condition. We don't have a lot of the details, but hearing how these officials are describing the conditions, we have an idea.
00:09:17
Speaker 3: Might you say that, well, it's.
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Speaker 2: Just that we don't have the details, but to hear people who see crimes not just like this, but horrific crimes day in and day out, sheriff's deputies, sheriff's officials, government workers who deal with these types of child endangerment situations all described this as something they've never seen before.
00:09:39
Speaker 1: I mean, there's every once in a while we can remember high profile cases where things come out where kids are discovered in horrible conditions. They've been held hostage for years in some cases, So I can only imagine this. It just threw me with the two kids are so bad off they had to be airlifted. They're so bad off they had to be airlifted, They're going to a trauma center. That might suggest there was an actual physical harm, there was an injury to a kid. I I just can't imagine. Just why are sixteen kids in any house under any circumstances that you could argue, yeah, and to.
00:10:19
Speaker 2: Your point, how, by the way, did no one know these kids existed? I mean, there is and there are going to be questions asked within this system. Why are these kids not accounted for? Who was supposed to be keeping up with them if they weren't in school? Who keeps track of kids? You know, a lot of agencies will be pointing fingers at one another as to how this happened, how this could occur in this country without seemingly anyone even knowing children were inside that home. So the Governor, Mike Dwine put out a statement just because of the gravity of this situation and knowing this story is going to continue to make headlines once we get some of these details, but he said, it's heartbreaking to learn the conditions that these children were living in, and to learn of their medical conditions. Attorney General Wilson is an experienced prosecutor and he has told me he has never seen anything like what he saw today. Fran and I pray for these children and thank the children's services workers, law enforcement officers, and medical personnel who are helping them.
00:11:19
Speaker 3: They're trying to get these kids placed now.
00:11:21
Speaker 1: I mean, do they have other family anywhere? Somebody somewhere that cares at all about these children other than the four people who, at least so far AP peers did not. I mean, this is you got a whole family here, bro, you got several families in terms of numbers. These kids need to go somewhere. Are they related? They're going to be split up all over the country as well.
00:11:44
Speaker 2: That's what it sounded like, and that's what it breaks your heart because we don't know yet what these children have endured and suffered, but this is the only experience they've likely known. So now they're in the hospital, thankfully getting medical care.
00:11:57
Speaker 3: But to think that.
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Speaker 2: They're all they already they're in separate hospitals a lot, you know, I don't believe in this area they could take in so many kids at one time with competing issues. So it was described as these children were sent to hospitals throughout the state and that right now child protective Services are frantically trying to find homes for them. But yeah, certainly no one person could take in sixteen kids. So that's just added trauma. That's just so sad at a time when maybe they yes, they've finally been rescued, but a lot of these kids don't even know that they needed to be rescued.
00:12:34
Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear is it possible these are all brother and sister?
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Speaker 2: Right?
00:12:38
Speaker 1: Two sets of adults here? Right?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 2: I mean, look by the names, you could make a pretty educated guest that this could be a husband and wife and then a son and then a daughter in law. And somehow these four adults all had I don't know if they had drug issues, if they had some other you know, we don't know if there was some reason why all four of them, because it's one thing if you've got one person or maybe even a couple, that's hard to get your head around. But four adults allowing all these children to be this not making sense, left in such a horrific condition.
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Speaker 1: Were the ages? Do you have the ages on the site those arrested?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 3: No, they haven't released the ages.
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Speaker 2: And that's why we could piece together if this is like basically two generations of family, and then the kids would be the third generation. But it seems if there isn't a human trafficking situation, you would think these are all their kids in some way, shape or form, and that or who knows if there was abuse going on with some of the girls, and there could just be all sorts of issues with who was having babies by whom.
00:13:43
Speaker 1: This says it no just I don't understand how sixteen kids are split between two couples, one of them possibly he's the dad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a senior and there's a junior.
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Speaker 1: I mean what I mean, how do you split those generations in such a way that they can have that many kids?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: If the sun is thirty, the dad is sixty, I mean, I guess the how many kids?
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Speaker 3: How do you The.
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Speaker 2: Oldest is eighteen, so eighteen to eighteen months, and to have that many kids, like I said, slip through the cracks.
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Speaker 3: No one knows who these kids are. No one knows who they belong to.
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Speaker 2: No one knows were they ever in school, did they ever see a physician? Did they ever have any care outside of this horrific situation. There are so many questions that are going to have to be answered, and look, we'll find out more, as we mentioned, in just a few hours, when these four adults are arraigned in Ohio. Certainly you can imagine there are going to be a lot of members of the media. They're ready to ask questions and ready to report what exactly was going on inside that home, but we just wanted to jump on, make you ware of the situation, and we will be updating the story. Thank you as always for listening to us every one. I'm Amy Roeboch alongside TJ.
00:14:52
Speaker 3: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Wednesday, July first, and a developing story, one in which prosecutors are calling pure evil after sixteen kids were found and what's being described as indescribable conditions. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. Sixteen kids found, two of them in such bad shape they had to be airlifted to a hospital. I say that up front to say just how terrible of conditions they say these kids are in.
00:00:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an absolute jaw dropping story, and we're going to learn a lot more details in the coming days, but what we do know so far is hard to get your head around.
00:00:53
Speaker 3: Yes, those two kids who.
00:00:55
Speaker 2: Had to be airlifted were actually airlifted to a Level one trauma, just to give you some perspective. And the other children, several of them, were in serious condition. All sixteen right now are being medically evaluated. And we're talking about kids ranging in age from eighteen months old to eighteen years old, a mix of boys and girls. And that's as specific as we've been given in terms of the details of who these kids are and in terms of who they belong to, we're not sure about that yet.
00:01:32
Speaker 1: We know some folks have been arrested, but we don't know who these kids are. We don't know what their relation is to each other, or relation to the adults that have now been arrested and charged with child endangerment and a whole host of charges that can continue to come and rooms right now, the authorities aren't giving a lot of details about the conditions, just describing them as the worst thing you've ever seen. And certainly an adult shouldn't be in it, and you certainly wouldn't put a child in it. But Rose, they're not exactly saying what was wrong with the kids, what the injuries were to the kids, but they're telling us this is.
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Speaker 3: A hell hole exactly.
00:02:19
Speaker 2: We got this update last night when authorities and this is just to give you an idea where this is. This is in rural southern Ohio and they gave a press conference last night, and you could just tell how stunned everyone was who actually do know.
00:02:36
Speaker 3: Some of these details.
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Speaker 2: And this is in a small town, less than a thousand people in this town. And interestingly enough, the local officials were quick to point out that these folks who have been arrested are not from the area. They painted a picture of them as traveling through or traveling to this area. And the only real picture I've seen online of the house, this thing is barely able to be described as a house.
00:03:04
Speaker 3: It looks like a shack.
00:03:07
Speaker 2: It has garbage all on the front part of it, and it looks tiny. So to imagine that there were sixteen children from eighteen months to eighteen years old in this home alongside four adults, so twenty people living in this tiny shack of a place, and the conditions inside described as horrific. The Sheriff's office said the scene was horrific. These are horrific allegations, but there is still an ongoing investigation, and.
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Speaker 3: Look, we're going to learn a lot more later today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're supposed to be in court today. A camera of this is a I'm not sure how quickly information you will come out of this tiny little area. I'm not familiar with it outside of Columbus. It's they call it a township or a village, even this tiny little place, so not a lot of folks, so we're all curious. I'm sure hopefully that local reporters will go there, But bro, we all have questions, and one of them is, as I saw from some of the local folks didn't even seem to be aware that there were kids in the house, like they didn't even know. They say, yeah, I come up and down the street all the time, I've never seen a kid. I don't know how you hide or keep sixteen kids out of public.
00:04:22
Speaker 3: View, possibly with restraints.
00:04:23
Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen this before, sadly, rarely, thankfully, but yes, you hear about for whatever reason, adults chaining kids to beds. But clearly, if they weren't seen outside of the home, they were being forced in some way, shape or form to stay indoors, whether it was through mind control or physical control. But if these kids were never seen, that's hard to imagine when you've got sixteen kids inside a small space. And the people who have been arrested, we do have their names. They all have the same last name, so it's Gary Cider's senior, Gary said junior, Elizabeth Siders, and Christina Siders. So those are the four adults we don't have their ages who have been charged with seventeen counts of child endangerment. That's one count for each of the children found, and then one additional because it involves serious physical harm, and that's what We know that these kids were medically in trouble and two of them in trauma, but from being described as in serious condition to critical condition, it's hard to get your your head around what could possibly have been going on inside that home.
00:05:35
Speaker 1: It could be physical injuries, could be malnourishment. I don't know. But if you got six that's sixteen miles to feed, so that people weren't familiar with these folks, so they that's a lot of food to carry around with you. You got to that's a big grocery bill. That's what is happening. So yeah, that's the I wonder if it is, if they are physical injuries and this is a abuse, you and try to understand why. But why are four people rolling around with sixteen kids? They're all their kids?
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Speaker 3: Possibly possibly, I think.
00:06:07
Speaker 2: Look, they haven't come out and said that completely, but they did address there were rumors, you know, to hear that, yes, there are that many kids in a home with four adults. There were rumors circulating that this could have been like a human trafficking case. But authorities very much said no, that is not the case. This is not a human trafficking situation. But they didn't get into the details about how all these folks are related. I thought this was interesting because we heard from the prosecutor, we heard from the sheriff's deputies, and the prosecutor even said, when he was asked some questions that they have not been able to speak to these kids. They say they couldn't even get the names or any kind of contact information from any of these children because of the conditions they were in that truly their medical and physical and the safety of them was superseded them getting any details, any information from these children at this.
00:07:01
Speaker 3: Point, because one of them is eighteen.
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Speaker 2: So, look, some of these kids are of age to be able to give full and detailed accounts of what they've been through to police.
00:07:12
Speaker 1: Well, we wait, but yeah, first and foremost is going to make sure the kids are out of harm's way and are on the way to better health than they clearly are in.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and look, the prosecutor also made a point to say more charges are possible. A second search warrant has been issued for that home, so they're going to be bringing in they.
00:07:28
Speaker 3: Say, computer analysts.
00:07:30
Speaker 2: They're going to be using lab analysts, so that would imply, look, there's something possibly on these computers. Obviously they're going to be doing forensics and lab testing in there, so that is where they are now.
00:07:42
Speaker 3: But just to hear the.
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Speaker 2: Prosecutor say the conditions, you can't even imagine people being in, let alone children being in when he described the home, and I thought this was pretty chilling. I've been doing these types of cases for a long time, a big portion of my career dedicated to prosecut these types of cases.
00:08:02
Speaker 3: This is pure evil what we saw down here today.
00:08:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm waiting for this hearing today what nine.
00:08:13
Speaker 2: Ten thirty local time, and we're hoping to get more details. When we come back, we're going to tell you what the governor of Ohio had to say about these horrific crimes and what happens next. Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are just starting to get some of the details of what was going on in southern Ohio, a small town, a tiny house that apparently had twenty people inside. Four adults now charged with child endangerment charges for sixteen kids found in that home, and the conditions.
00:08:55
Speaker 3: Were so deplorable.
00:08:57
Speaker 2: All of them are in the hospital right now being medically evaluated. Two of them had to be flown to Level one trauma centers, and several of them are described as in serious condition. We don't have a lot of the details, but hearing how these officials are describing the conditions, we have an idea.
00:09:17
Speaker 3: Might you say that, well, it's.
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Speaker 2: Just that we don't have the details, but to hear people who see crimes not just like this, but horrific crimes day in and day out, sheriff's deputies, sheriff's officials, government workers who deal with these types of child endangerment situations all described this as something they've never seen before.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's every once in a while we can remember high profile cases where things come out where kids are discovered in horrible conditions. They've been held hostage for years in some cases, So I can only imagine this. It just threw me with the two kids are so bad off they had to be airlifted. They're so bad off they had to be airlifted, They're going to a trauma center. That might suggest there was an actual physical harm, there was an injury to a kid. I I just can't imagine. Just why are sixteen kids in any house under any circumstances that you could argue, yeah, and to.
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Speaker 2: Your point, how, by the way, did no one know these kids existed? I mean, there is and there are going to be questions asked within this system. Why are these kids not accounted for? Who was supposed to be keeping up with them if they weren't in school? Who keeps track of kids? You know, a lot of agencies will be pointing fingers at one another as to how this happened, how this could occur in this country without seemingly anyone even knowing children were inside that home. So the Governor, Mike Dwine put out a statement just because of the gravity of this situation and knowing this story is going to continue to make headlines once we get some of these details, but he said, it's heartbreaking to learn the conditions that these children were living in, and to learn of their medical conditions. Attorney General Wilson is an experienced prosecutor and he has told me he has never seen anything like what he saw today. Fran and I pray for these children and thank the children's services workers, law enforcement officers, and medical personnel who are helping them.
00:11:19
Speaker 3: They're trying to get these kids placed now.
00:11:21
Speaker 1: I mean, do they have other family anywhere? Somebody somewhere that cares at all about these children other than the four people who, at least so far AP peers did not. I mean, this is you got a whole family here, bro, you got several families in terms of numbers. These kids need to go somewhere. Are they related? They're going to be split up all over the country as well.
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Speaker 2: That's what it sounded like, and that's what it breaks your heart because we don't know yet what these children have endured and suffered, but this is the only experience they've likely known. So now they're in the hospital, thankfully getting medical care.
00:11:57
Speaker 3: But to think that.
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Speaker 2: They're all they already they're in separate hospitals a lot, you know, I don't believe in this area they could take in so many kids at one time with competing issues. So it was described as these children were sent to hospitals throughout the state and that right now child protective Services are frantically trying to find homes for them. But yeah, certainly no one person could take in sixteen kids. So that's just added trauma. That's just so sad at a time when maybe they yes, they've finally been rescued, but a lot of these kids don't even know that they needed to be rescued.
00:12:34
Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear is it possible these are all brother and sister?
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Speaker 2: Right?
00:12:38
Speaker 1: Two sets of adults here? Right?
00:12:40
Speaker 3: Yes?
00:12:41
Speaker 2: I mean, look by the names, you could make a pretty educated guest that this could be a husband and wife and then a son and then a daughter in law. And somehow these four adults all had I don't know if they had drug issues, if they had some other you know, we don't know if there was some reason why all four of them, because it's one thing if you've got one person or maybe even a couple, that's hard to get your head around. But four adults allowing all these children to be this not making sense, left in such a horrific condition.
00:13:12
Speaker 1: Were the ages? Do you have the ages on the site those arrested?
00:13:15
Speaker 2: Uh?
00:13:16
Speaker 3: No, they haven't released the ages.
00:13:17
Speaker 2: And that's why we could piece together if this is like basically two generations of family, and then the kids would be the third generation. But it seems if there isn't a human trafficking situation, you would think these are all their kids in some way, shape or form, and that or who knows if there was abuse going on with some of the girls, and there could just be all sorts of issues with who was having babies by whom.
00:13:43
Speaker 1: This says it no just I don't understand how sixteen kids are split between two couples, one of them possibly he's the dad.
00:13:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a senior and there's a junior.
00:13:53
Speaker 1: I mean what I mean, how do you split those generations in such a way that they can have that many kids?
00:13:57
Speaker 2: Right?
00:13:58
Speaker 1: If the sun is thirty, the dad is sixty, I mean, I guess the how many kids?
00:14:03
Speaker 3: How do you The.
00:14:03
Speaker 2: Oldest is eighteen, so eighteen to eighteen months, and to have that many kids, like I said, slip through the cracks.
00:14:10
Speaker 3: No one knows who these kids are. No one knows who they belong to.
00:14:14
Speaker 2: No one knows were they ever in school, did they ever see a physician? Did they ever have any care outside of this horrific situation. There are so many questions that are going to have to be answered, and look, we'll find out more, as we mentioned, in just a few hours, when these four adults are arraigned in Ohio. Certainly you can imagine there are going to be a lot of members of the media. They're ready to ask questions and ready to report what exactly was going on inside that home, but we just wanted to jump on, make you ware of the situation, and we will be updating the story. Thank you as always for listening to us every one. I'm Amy Roeboch alongside TJ.
00:14:52
Speaker 3: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.