Bodycam shows police discover ‘deplorable’ conditions inside Ohio home with 13 kids, prompts arrest

Police bodycam showed Ohio officers finding 13 young children living in horrific conditions.

The Toledo Police Department said officers responded to the home for an animal complaint. While at the scene, police found 13 children, ages 1-13, living in “deplorable” and “unsafe” conditions inside the home, officers wrote in the report.

According to an arrest affidavit, officers said this included children suffering from bug bites and multiple insect infestations while in the home with no working toilet or shower, no food in the kitchen and human and animal feces on the floors.

The children “appeared filthy as if they had not been bathed in days,” charging documents filed with the Toledo Clerk of Court say.

In addition to the conditions in the home, police found an animal that appeared not to have been cared for, the complaint continues.

All the alleged circumstances “put their health and safety at risk,” officers wrote in the report.

“These kids didn’t sign up for that,” an officer said.

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