All posts tagged "Neglected Children"

Seven children were found being neglected in a Pennsylvania mobile home, with some having "maggot-infested hair" and almost all of them showing serious signs of malnutrition, according to a local news report.

Authorities arrested the two parents, who went unnamed to protect the identities of the child victims involved, and charged them with felony child endangerment and neglect, according to USA Today. The parents are 37 and 47, and the children involved are all under 17, according to the report.

"Police reported the children, ages 4 to 16, lived in squalid conditions in a three-bedroom mobile home in Sellersville, about 38 miles north of Philadelphia," the outlet reported. "When police responded to the home, they found the children living with their parents and nearly three dozen animals including rats, dogs, rabbits and reptiles, the Bucks County Courier Times, part of the USA TODAY Network reported."...

A dozen filthy, neglected children, some with deformities or disabilities due to generations of inbreeding, have been found on a rural Australian settlement in an incest case that has shocked the nation.