Editor's Note: This story was updated with the latest information. VINTON COUNTY, Ohio (WOWK) - Four people have been arrested after 16 children in serious medical conditions were removed from a home in Vinton County.
Authorities arrested four adults on felony child endangerment charges after discovering 16 children in dire need of medical treatment Tuesday in a rural southern Ohio home. The Ohio Bureau of Investigation and local sheriff’s department searched a home in the small village of Hamden, where they foun…
The dilapidated home where authorities say they removed 16 children and arrested four adults remains blocked off by crime scene tape on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 in Hamden, Ohio.
The dilapidated home where authorities say they removed 16 children and arrested four adults remains blocked off by crime scene tape on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 in Hamden, Ohio.
VINTON COUNTY, Ohio (WOWK) - Four people have pleaded not guilty in Vinton County court Wednesday after 16 children in serious medical conditions were removed from a home in Hamden on Tuesday. According to Vinton County Prosecutor William Archer, the four suspects, Gary Siders Sr., Gary Siders Jr.
HAMDEN, Ohio (AP) — The 16 children found living in “deplorable” conditions inside a small, delapidated rural Ohio home are part of the same family, officials said Wednesday. Authorities arrested four adults Tuesday on felony child endangerment charges after finding the children in the home.
Authorities say 16 children from the same family who were rescued from a run-down home in rural Ohio were living in horrific conditions and were confined to just one room over much of the past four years. Investigators say some of the children discovered Tuesday were unable to speak.
Authorities say 16 children from the same family who were rescued from a rundown home in rural Ohio were living in horrific conditions and confined to just one room over much of the past four years. Investigators say some of the children discovered Tuesday were unable to speak.
Four people arrested after 16 children were found in deplorable conditions in Vinton County, Ohio, officials said. Two children were flown to trauma centers.
HAMDEN, Ohio — Sixteen children from the same family who were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio were living in wretched conditions with human waste all around, confined to just one room over much of the past four years, authorities said Wednesday.
Parents and grandparents charged as police say case in Hamden not human trafficking but ‘intra-family situation’ Sixteen children were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio after being confined to just one room in “deplorable conditions” for much of the past four years, authorities said on W…
HAMDEN, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say 16 children have been rescued from a dilapidated rural Ohio home where they were confined to a single room for much of the past four years and lived in horrific conditions. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Some of the children discovered Tuesday were unable to speak and one — an 18-year-old who was developmentally disabled — could not even write her name, investigators said.
Police tape surrounds a home where authorities say they removed 16 children and arrested four adults in Hamden, Ohio, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
As many as 16 children were rescued from what was described as a "house of horrors" in Ohio, appearing like "feral animals" after police discovered them.
Police said that the parents and grandparents of 16 children subjected them to severe neglect and horrible living conditions described as "pure evil." Police executed a search warrant on Tuesday at about 10 a.m.
HAMDEN, Ohio (AP) — Just days after authorities removed 16 children from a squalid home and arrested four adult relatives, the question looms over their southern Ohio village: How could this have happened, for years, unnoticed, right here? Neighbors of the family in tiny Hamden, employees at local s…
The discovery of 16 children living in deplorable conditions in rural Ohio has left people wondering why the life-threatening squalor wasn’t detected earlier. Seven were taken to hospitals, including one who was in critical condition when rushed to care Tuesday.
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