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Sixteen children discovered in “deplorable conditions” in a southern rural Ohio home have led to charges against four people, including the children’s mother and father.
The Ohio Bureau of Investigation and local sheriff’s department searched a home in the small village of Hamden as a culmination of another investigation that led to the discovery of the 16 children.
Hamden has a population of less than 1,000 people and is about 60 miles southeast of Columbus.
“Conditions you cannot even imagine people being in, let alone children being in,” Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson said at a news conference.
Watch the latest press conference from officials in the video player below: