In a rural Ohio home discovered almost by chance, sixteen children — ranging from toddler to young adult — were found living in conditions that a county sheriff said were worse than those afforded the family's livestock. The grandfather who owned the home, seventy-three-year-old Gary Siders Sr., appeared in a Vinton County courtroom this week and was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial, his decline deemed irreversible. The case now rests on three remaining defendants who have pleaded not guilty, while the deeper question lingers: how does a society reckon with harm so profound when the l
Grandfather found mentally incompetent in case of 16 grandchildren held in squalor
Sixteen children ranging from 18 months to 18 years old were rescued from severe neglect, confined to a small room in deplorable sanitary conditions, unable to attend school or interact with society.