A resident of the neighborhood where the “Ohio house of horrors” was situated, theorized how the four adults “got away with” the alleged abuse of 16 children living in the squalid home.

Ralph Hennemen, a Vinton County resident, said that the home was “on a railroad bed and a dead end.”

“There’s really no houses around it. I think that’s maybe how they got away with it,” he told local news station WBNS10.

Elizabeth Siders, 33, her husband, Gary Siders Jr, 36, and her in-laws, Gary Siders Sr, 73, and Christina Siders, 67, were all arrested and charged with second-degree felony child endangering after officers found all 16 children – ranging in age from one to 18 – living like “feral animals” in just one room in the filthy home.

Hennemen, who’s been a decades-long resident of Hamden, said he didn’t think he “ever went down” the road the Siders’ lived on.

A local Dollar General worker told the news outlet said that he regularly saw Gary Siders Jr. and Elizabeth Siders.

He described the couple as consistently having “very poor hygiene.”

“Their clothes were always in disarray,” he added.

The worker added that in observing Elizabeth, “it seemed as if she was always consistently pregnant or in labor in some way,” he said.

The Siders family sparked nationwide headlines when officers allegedly discovered the 16 youngsters inhabiting a 12X12 room.
Officers allegedly discovered the 16 youngsters confined to a 12X12 room -Credit:AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
The worker said Elizabeth and Gary Jr. would buy “diapers, general food, milk, just other junk food. They’d pay with multiple different cards.”

The Siders family sparked nationwide headlines when officers allegedly discovered the 16 youngsters inhabiting a 12X12 room.

Authorities had discovered the 16 children after they served an unrelated search warrant at the Hamden residence.

Authorities have since acknowledged that the children were in such a dire state that they could have been facing “multiple deaths” had officers arrived just 24 hours later.

Gary Siders Jr, the children’s father, was already facing criminal charges before his arrest on June 30. Just one month prior to the raid on his home, he had been charged with four counts of public indecency.

SOURCE: https://www.aol.com/articles/ohio-house-horror-neighbor-explains-173519000.html

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