19 Kids found Home Alone in Hot Filthy Kentucky Home

[Stuart G]

Source: AP, and Kentucky.Com

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Authorities plan to file charges against a man and a woman accused of leaving 19 children ranging from 8 months to 14 years old unattended for a week in a sweltering, filthy home near Bowling Green.

The children were found Monday night in a small three-bedroom rental home near Interstate 65 by officers who were responding to a complaint from a neighbor. It was littered with dog feces and had no air conditioning, Warren County Sheriff's Detective Tim Robinson said.

"It's such an unusual circumstance to find 19 children like that, we're still putting things together right now," Robinson said.

The adults, Irving "Joe" Smith and Jackie Farah, left town on June 27 and told a neighbor to check on the kids, Robinson said. They are expected to face charges when they return



Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/07/03/2247105/19-youngsters-found-unattended.html

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[MADem]

1. Horrible. Ghastly. Those children need a stable home.

There's no way they will be able to place them all together, but perhaps they can place them near enough to one another so that they can see each other in school.

I am guessing there are no reliable relatives, otherwise they'd have stepped up.

This is so sad.

[XemaSab]

2. Damn

That is really depressing.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. It sounds like the home was a stable.

How on earth can people do things like this?

It's hard to believe. I hope the kids are able to find good, loving homes.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Where did they get 19 kids. Seems almost impossible to have 19 kids between age 0 and 14

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Blended family?

Your kids, my kids, our kids?

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. I see. Hadn't considered that.

[rateyes]

7. blended family...some his, some hers.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. ahh.. Hadn't considered that. Why would someone with 9 kids marry someone with 10?

Just kidding! I know they married for love!

[Incitatus]

13. Because no one else would marry someone with 9 or 10 kids.

[4th law of robotics]

21. To have some help in babysitting them?

Doesn't seem to have worked though . . .

[agentS]

5. Is this one of those weird cases of 'child hoarding' for welfare checks?

I've heard about something like this before, when a couple gets a dozen kids from Foster Care and pockets the funding check.

[freshwest]

17. IDK if this was, but that does happen with all ages and it's deplorable.

Lack of follow-up and supervision due to cutbacks.

[bluedigger]

10. They need a TV show or something. n/t

[alp227]

11. Definitely not the Duggars.

[MindMover]

12. Just like they can vote for W twice....

[Grassy Knoll]

14. Is this why Mitch McConnell.......

hates Obama care ? Looks like Mitch's state needs Mental Care.
There should be an app for that.

[freshwest]

18. I don't think the ACA could have prevented this. McConnell's a dog, though. (apologies to canines)

[Skittles]

15. I won't leave my cats for over 24 hours

if I am gone more than a day I get a pet sitter

[dembotoz]

16. and contraception remains controvertial

maybe they wanted the larger family
maybe they really loved the book cheaper by the dozen.

but damn

[freshwest]

19. Appears that they put all that responsibility on the 14 year old. Parents may have been seeking work

As well, and likely no childcare funding or agencies in Kentucky at the rate it's going with Rand Paul slashing and burning the social safety net as fast as he can. I haven't been through KY for many years, but passing through, some of it was beautiful. No idea what is going on there now.

[4th law of robotics]

22. There are programs that catch feral cats

sterilize and release them.

This is done on the grounds that they are breeding out of control, spreading disease, and ultimately causing more suffering within their populations due to overbreeding.

Huh.

[wordpix]

23. so does abortion

[Marrah_G]

20. Very sad

I hope they can find somewhere safe for those kids

[L0oniX]

24. Silly repukes ...this is what they have in mind for future retirement homes.