What gets me is this family member was okay with there being 'only around 10 children' in the small house, which is why they never reported them. However, had they known there were 16, they would have done something. Geez.

Family members of the 16 “almost feral” children rescued from a feces-filled Ohio house of horrors had no idea there were that many kids living inside.

Grandparents Gary Siders Sr., 73, and Christina “Lynn” Siders, 67, were arrested alongside their son, Gary “Bub” Siders Jr., 36, and his wife, Elizabeth Siders, 33, after authorities allegedly found the children, ages 1 to 18, living in squalor and isolation inside a cramped 12-by-12 room.

Ronnie Fletcher, who’s married to one of the grandparents’ adult daughters, said he and his wife knew the younger Siders had a large family – but believed there were only around 10 children.
They only learned of the staggering 16 kids when news of their relatives’ arrests broke, he told local news outlet WOWK 13 – and said the revelation left the extended family “horrified” and “worried about the kids.”

The children were forced to live inside the cramped room littered with human waste for at least the past four years, according to authorities.

Relatives would have intervened had they known what was happening, the son-in-law insisted.


https://nypost.com/2026/07/06/us-new...living-inside/