What Elizabeth Siders' Own Attorney Is Saying About Her

Elizabeth Siders was fifteen when she married into the family whose house would eventually hold sixteen children in a single room in rural Ohio. She gave birth to every one of them. She now faces sixteen felony counts. And her own defense attorney has argued in court filings that she may be a victim of this family — not a willing participant, but someone closer to the seventeenth person trapped inside those walls. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis walks through whether that argument has legal legs and what it does to the prosecution's strategy.

A judge has issued a gag order covering every official who spoke about the case — filed by the defense after the AG called the conditions pure evil and the sheriff compared them to livestock. Faddis breaks down whether the prosecution may have handed the defense a constitutional argument by allowing those public statements before anyone was indicted. Meanwhile, the seventy-three-year-old grandfather walked out of jail because the county couldn't afford his medical bills, and his attorney has filed multiple competency motions.

Faddis also addresses a question that hasn't received enough scrutiny: Gallia County filed six truancy complaints against this family in 2021. They were never served. The family moved and the system lost them. For eighteen years, sixteen children existed with almost no records. Where does the government's liability begin — and can any agency actually be held accountable? Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on Hidden Killers.

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