Siders' 16 Kids: Ohio Came To That Door For WHAT?

The officers who found the Siders children came to that house for something else entirely.

Sixteen kids in Hamden, Ohio. Deputies at the front door on a warrant that had nothing to do with any of them. Ohio's Attorney General has said flatly that nobody knew there would be children inside. No school record. No neighbor who knew. No caseworker who had ever been out.

The oldest of the sixteen is eighteen years old, and investigators said she could not write her own name. Court records indicate she was born when her mother was only fifteen. Ohio wrote that baby's name onto a birth certificate and filed it, and years later that paper is still in a county drawer, never looked at again.

Tony Brueski asks what should be the only question anyone is asking: who was actually supposed to find her? He walks through a mandated-reporter system that carries a duty and almost no penalty for ignoring it, so a birth to a fifteen-year-old can pass without a single alarm going off. He holds up one comparison from Washington, D.C., where four girls were found dead nineteen years into a federal judge's supervision of that city's child welfare system. And he follows a ten-billion-dollar federal program whose money switches on the instant a child is removed, and never once switches on to go find one.

All four Siders adults have pleaded not guilty to sixteen counts each of second-degree felony child endangering. No indictment has been returned.

Sixteen children were found by accident. There is no accident coming for the rest of them.

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