🚨 EVERYONE THOUGHT THEY KNEW THE WHOLE STORY BEHIND THE “OHIO HORR0R HOUSE”… UNTIL AN EVEN MORE SH0CKING TRUTH ABOUT THE MOTHER EMERGED, AND T’S NOT AS SIMPLE AS WHAT WE’VE SEEN…
The mother of the 16 “almost feral” children rescued from a feces-filled house of horrors once gave birth to conjoined twins who died hours after birth, newly uncovered state records reveal.
Elizabeth Siders, 33, delivered daughters Bailey Lee and Faith Lee Siders at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 20, 2022, according to state vital statistics records obtained by local outlet WOWK 13.
The tragic infants were born at just 24 weeks’ gestation with a condition known as thoracopagus, where their faces and chests were fused together in the womb — the most common situation for conjoined twins.
The twins died later that same day from natural causes, according to the records.
Elizabeth Siders, 33, delivered a set of conjoined twin girls who died just hours after birth at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital on Nov. 20, 2022, according to state vital statistics.Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail
The revelation came just days after their mother and father, Gary Siders Jr., were arrested alongside grandparents Gary Siders Sr. and Christina Siders in the family’s Vinton County home — after authorities found 16 children, ages 1 to 18, living in squalor and isolation inside a cramped 12-by-12 room at the house.
It remains unclear if both Elizabeth and Siders Jr. are the parents to all the kids, as Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson described it as an “intra-family case.”
The children were forced to live in the single room while it was littered with human waste for at least the past four years, according to authorities, who have described the grisly scene as “deplorable” and “third-world” – and even said local livestock exist in better conditions than the kids.
The children, who were never enrolled in school, can barely communicate – and some cannot speak at all, officials said.
The oldest child, 18, is developmentally disabled and unable to even write her name, according to investigators.
The 16 children were forced to live inside the cramped room littered with human waste for at least the past four years, according to authorities.WSYX ABC 6
The kids were taken to hospitals across Ohio after the rescue. Some were listed in serious condition, including two who were airlifted to trauma centers and at least one who had to be intubated, according to officials.
On Monday, the children’s horrified uncle insisted that other family members didn’t know how many kids Elizabeth and Gary Siders Jr. had.
Ronnie Fletcher, who’s married to one of the grandparents’ adult daughters, said he and his wife knew the couple had a large family – but believed there were only around 10 children.
They only learned of the staggering 16 kids and the alleged abuse when news of their relatives’ arrests broke, Fletcher told local news outlet WOWK 13 – and said the revelation left the extended family “horrified” and “worried about the kids.”
Gary Siders Sr., 73 (top left), and Christina “Lynn” Siders, 67 (top right), were arrested for the alleged child abuse alongside their son, Gary “Bub” Siders Jr., 36 (bottom right), and his wife, Elizabeth Siders, 33 (bottom left).Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail
“If we would have known that it was like that in that home, we would have done something about it – even if it was just to go there and take the kids ourselves or give them money,” he said.
Fletcher also shed light on Elizabeth’s questionable marriage to Gary Jr. in 2008, when she was just 15 years old and he was 18.
“She did not have a very good home life when they got together, and she escaped to Lynn [Christina] and Gary’s house, which … was back then a normal American home,” he said.
The couple’s oldest child, the 18-year-old girl, was reportedly born two months after they tied the knot.
Court records show the other children’s ages as 16, 15, 14, 13, 11, 10, 8, 6, and 5, along with 4-year-old twins, 2-year-old twins and 1-year-old twins.
The four defendants each pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of child endangerment last Wednesday, when a judge set their bail at $300,000 apiece. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect
The four defendants each pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of child endangerment last Wednesday, when a judge set their bail at $300,000 apiece.
They all waived their preliminary hearings scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
If convicted on all charges, each defendant faces a maximum sentence of up to 192 years in prison.
SOURCE: NYPOST
