16 CHILDREN FOUND PACKED IN 12-BY-12 FILTH PIT

Neighbors were watching the Ohio house long before the horror inside was exposed — but the children stayed hidden until it was too late. A former FBI agent says four public indecency incidents at the home should have been flashing red lights, as investigators later found 16 children, ages 17 months to 18 years, crammed into a filthy 12-by-12 room with garbage and feces; two were life-flighted, seven more hospitalized, and none were enrolled in school. Gary Siders Jr., his wife, and his parents now face child endangerment charges, while a 2021 truancy case involving six of the children was dropped after the parents stopped responding.