Pa. parents charged after seven children found living in deplorable conditions and removed from home

[Princess Turandot]

2. As bad as this description is, the situation as described in the police affidavit was much worse..

There was very little food in the locked fridge. They were living in something beyond squalor, with garbage strewn about the floors and holes in the walls and floors. There were literally no cleaning products on hand for hygiene or in the kitchen.

The father first told the police and then a child welfare social worker that they had three children. When the others were discovered, he told them that he lied because he 'didn't want to get in trouble'. I wonder if they were born at home and never registered with the municipality where they were born. (The family had only lived in that location for 18 months; the youngest kid was 4 years old.) They had no formal education.

The police noted that despite the lack of people food, they did have food for the animals.

The narrative begins on page 4. Not for the faint of heart.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23826410/robertson-affidavit.pdf