“Parents Arrested in Pennsylvania for Child Neglect and Malnourishment”

Pennsylvania police have arrested two parents after finding their children, ages 4 to 16, malnourished and in feces at the family home.

By Le Figaro

Posted on 05/31/2023 at 08:28update on 05/31/2023 at 09:06

Rats in a cage, and, on the ground, excrement. In a family home, Pennsylvania police found seven children abandoned by their parents in living conditions “unhealthy» et «dangerous“, indicates a police report published on May 25.

Officers were arrested April 23 by a report of three in an abandoned trailer in West Rockhill Township, north of Philadelphia. When they discover the children there, the police call on the Social Services Agency to investigate the family home. Four others are discovered in “deplorable living conditions».

“Trash cans on legs”

One of the rooms contained around 20 rats in cages, police described, also listing “two dogs, two turtles, two rabbits, snakes, toads and a reptilefound in the bedrooms. “There was also a bad smell and insects“, continues the report, evoking excrement strewing the ground.

The children, aged 4 to 16, were visibly undernourished, while the refrigerator remained padlocked. The mother, Crystal Robertson, indicated that she was forced to lock it up because her children, these “trash cans on legsin his words, “were flying” the food.

According to the latest investigations, none of the seven children has been to school. Without basic knowledge, they also manifested a state of anxiety, “clinically underweight” and “malnutrition”. They were taken into custody and taken to hospital for treatment, it said. CNN. The father and mother were charged with seven counts of endangering the health of children, according to the statement.