Is this that same story printed a few days back with the three mothers, the two men and a group of children, all Muslim, Black, starving and dirty? Everytime that story is reported, it is as though occurring from a different city or state. I’ve seen New Mexico, New Jersey, and now Taos County, wherever that is. Bottom line is , I’m glad the kids have been found and removed from the custody of those particular adults.
From the article:
“Overall, this is readily identifiable and hazardous with extremely filthy living conditions which greatly resemble that of what would be considered ‘third world country in nature’ with odorous trash everywhere, no clean water, no electricity, no plumbing/sewer, and the children were not clean, without shoes and without proper hygiene, and rags of clothing,” according to the sheriff’s office affidavit. It went on to say that the children had likely not eaten in days.
Yesterday's article detailed the location of the compound on the Colorado border at 8,470 feet elevation as one of the coldest locations in the continental US. It is in the southernmost portion of the San Luis valley 40 miles south of Alamosa. In winter that city commonly has the coldest low temperature in the US. With those conditions and the wind and the cold beginning in September, those children would have surely died if they had not been rescued.
One more note, their “compound” (better called just a campsite) is only eight miles from a closed downhill ski area, Ski Rio, showing again the danger the kids were in as autumn approached.