Jackie FarahThe way police are describing the conditions in a home where they found 19 kids living alone this week make me want to cry. Kentucky authorities say the home where the kids were alone for a week had dog feces an inch thick on the floor of one room. The youngest child was 8 months, the oldest only 14 years old. And to top it off? The area was going through a heat wave, but the kids had no air conditioning.
How much worse could it get for these poor kids? Wait, don't answer that. The reports out of Kentucky are already pushing me to my limit.
To be honest, the whole story of how all 19 kids ended up alone is hard to understand -- and not just because most of us wouldn't leave a dog alone in such conditions (although these kids were allegedly left with nine dogs plus a cat!).
The latest allegations include the arrest of a woman named Jackie Farah, a 32-year-old who seems to be the mother of at least some of the kids. Police have charged Farah with 14 counts of criminal abuse and five counts of wanton endangerment. They say that she and a man named Irving "Joe" Smith left town for a "family emergency" right in the middle of the heat wave, leaving behind the 13 kids who live in the house plus six cousins who were visiting for the summer.
If what police allege turns out to be true, think about this: they had to know what it was going to be like in that house. Leaving a 14-year-old in charge of 18 younger kids would be bordering on insane in any situation -- I don't care how responsible the 14-year-old is. But then you just keep adding in the awful factors, and you throw the heat on top of it?
I can't think of a single excuse for doing this to a human being, period. Doing this to children? That's just plain cruel.
What part of this story just set you over the edge?
Image via Warren County Sheriff's Office
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The fact that there are people praying for children and these idiots aparently have had 13 children which they obviously don't want and certainly don't have the moral decency to take care of. Sad as it may be, the facts would have been that if even 1 of the neighbors had taken even 1 of those kids out of that house, they would have risked being charged with kidnapping an even more serious charge than the mother is facing. Hopefully none of these kids will be returned to the louisville two parents and serious look taken at the cousins parents who would send 6 kids to live for the summer with someone who already had 13 in the house. This story makes me angry from start to finish. Unless it was their own death as the family emergency, I can't fathom ANY family emergency that justify leaving 19 kids any age alone with 9 dogs 1 cat no food and no way to cool off in a major warning heat wave.
She and that boyfriend and all child molesters should all be locked up for good! She may need treatment for mental ill-health first. The kids should all be adopted into caring, loving, Godly homes!