19 Kids found Home Alone in Hot Filthy Kentucky Home [View all]
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
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