Children’s Life In A Hell Hole
“Three children had to be rescued after their parents turned the family home into a squalid ‘hell hole’, a court heard yesterday. The youngsters, aged one, three and four, were kept inside day and night by their cruel parents and forced to play among the filth and rubbish piled high in every room. Yesterday the 26-year-old man and 25-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were jailed for three years at York Crown Court after admitting cruelty to their children. Judge Stephen Ashurst told them: ‘The three very young children were not so much living as surviving in that dark, insanitary and squalid house. They were prisoners in their own home.’ Detective Constable Debbie Outwin, of the Protecting Vulnerable Persons Unit in York, said: ‘The only words to describe the house were “hell hole”.’ The stench was unbearable and the house was littered with rotting food and human excrement, the court heard. Banned from playing in the garden during the summer months, the youngsters were kept in virtual darkness as every window was covered.” w/ photos
