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Children Pulled From a House of Filth
WTRF-TV ^ | December 29, 2009 | Crissy Clutter

Posted on 12/29/2009 9:08:57 PM PST by Sam_Damon

AMSTERDAM, Ohio -- Deputies found garbage wall to wall inside the Amsterdam home and now one parent is facing charges.

The 10-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy are in the care of a foster parent tonight and the father is facing a charge of child endangerment.

Sheriff Fred Abdalla said me he did not arrest the mother because she is pregnant with the couples third child.

(Excerpt) Read more at wtrf.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: abuse; childabuse; hoard; hoarder; hoarders; hoarding; nannystate; ocd; packrat; parenting; pigsty; squalor; stuff
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I'm pretty speechless.
1 posted on 12/29/2009 9:08:57 PM PST by Sam_Damon
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To: Sam_Damon

but if the daddy has his daughter on his knee showing her hard-core porn, then there is nothing to be done.

what a weird place we have made.


2 posted on 12/29/2009 9:16:39 PM PST by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards,com)
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Sheriff Fred Abdalla

Fred's family runs a great steak restaurant. He seems to be a decent sheriff in an area that is best described as Ohio's a**hole.

3 posted on 12/29/2009 9:20:20 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

I think that’s his brother who runs the steakhouse. Yummy steaks. I ate there once. It’s an old-fashioned roadhouse.

“Worth a detour” as the Michelin guide reads.


4 posted on 12/29/2009 9:25:18 PM PST by Sam_Damon
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To: Sam_Damon
The sheriff provided gift cards so the children could have some Christmas presents and the fosters parents are providing a warm bed.

Hope the kids had a good Christmas. Kudos to the sheriff.

5 posted on 12/29/2009 9:25:35 PM PST by azishot (MERRY CHRISTMAS!!)
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To: Sam_Damon

Yep. On Route 7 in Stratton.


6 posted on 12/29/2009 9:27:57 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Sam_Damon
You should watch Hoarders sometime on satellite....they even find dead animals under the piled high crap...one woman lost her kids but was really sad then they took her dogs and cats away...something like 50, with feces piled throughout the garage and house...

The one I watch today, they use shovels to clean up the place and took out 8 tons of crap.....rotting food, toilets black, with paths to walk throught the house....beds that had not been used it years because of the garbage on them....a real eye opener..

7 posted on 12/29/2009 9:27:57 PM PST by goat granny
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I've got a neighbor who is a Hoarder. She is an extremely nice woman but you can't even take one step into her place because every square foot of floor (and every where else) is covered with something. A few weeks back I had my washer/dryer replaced and happened to mention to her that I do about 4 loads of laundry a week. She was astonished and said that she rarely washes anything.

Now I admit that my place is cluttered. I'm not a neat freak. But slowly but surely things are being organized in my own home.

What frightens me about my neighbor is that we both live in a row of attached townhouses and (God forbid) she ever has a fire. The whole building will go up in flames.

8 posted on 12/29/2009 9:36:00 PM PST by proudofthesouth (We are being governed by a Muzzie illegal alien and a corrupt Congress who no longer work for us.)
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To: Sam_Damon

It’s a little ironic that the reporter’s name is “Christy Clutter”.


9 posted on 12/29/2009 9:38:07 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
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To: goat granny

There’s a website called Childrenofhoarders.com, or .org, I forget which, but it’s a support group for the offspring of these people. Often it’s the adult children who time after time try to get their parents’ places clean, only to have them re-stuff their houses.


10 posted on 12/29/2009 9:41:42 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( T.G., global warming denier.)
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To: goat granny
You should watch Hoarders sometime on satellite.

I watch it on regular cable.

11 posted on 12/29/2009 9:46:11 PM PST by Graybeard58 ("Get lost, Mitt. You're the Eddie Haskell of the Republican party." (Finny))
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To: goat granny

I posted a story a few weeks back about a woman in Connecticut, who lost her life in a fire because the firemen couldn’t get to her because of the “clutter”.


12 posted on 12/29/2009 9:48:18 PM PST by Graybeard58 ("Get lost, Mitt. You're the Eddie Haskell of the Republican party." (Finny))
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To: goat granny

Hoarders Augustine Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kSAu20ABQw


13 posted on 12/29/2009 9:50:41 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Sam_Damon

I worked in a house once, actually a trailer...it was the filthiest place I have ever been. Cat food, cat turds, cats, dog food, dog turds, dogs, clothes, garbage, rotting food on plates...etc etc.

So I do the job like everything is normal. As I finish, the woman says “well what about this item.” And I say...well I’m sorry ma’am, but it isn’t on my work order. And it wasn’t. I can only bring with me what my paperwork tells me to bring.

So she has the nerve to get an attitude with me. As if my service in her disgusting, disgusting house wasn’t up to her standards. So I got a little angry myself. And I told her that I was doing her a favor by even doing the job. And she goes...what do you mean? And I just laughed, and started pointing out things. I said that if I called my supervisors or OSHA they’d agree that this was about as hazardous a working condition as could be found in my line of work, that I was under no obligation to perform the work due to the condition of the house, but I had done it anyway, and that I would be glad to get a supervisor to come right over and settle things. For some reason she didn’t want the supervisor seeing her filth...lol. It was truly disgusting.


14 posted on 12/29/2009 10:04:33 PM PST by Spike Knotts
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I don't know about Stubenville being Ohio's A$$hole. I have lived in Mansfield, and been to Lima. Both of these towns are downright awful. Of course I lived in Mansfield in the late 80’s, it could be worse now.
15 posted on 12/29/2009 10:07:39 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: goat granny

I watched that last night. It made me sick, especially when the found dead cats, yes, dead CATS under all the garbage. And I was getting worried about hoarding paper grocery bags (I had about 50). After watching one of those episodes, I threw all of them away!!!!


16 posted on 12/29/2009 10:14:55 PM PST by notaliberal (Palin supporter)
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To: proudofthesouth

Raising 5 kids I too was a casual housecleaner, but these homes I do not understand but have know 2 people like this...Don’t understand it at all.....and sometimes you cannot tell by the person, you really have to go into their houses........


17 posted on 12/29/2009 10:20:33 PM PST by goat granny
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I have to chuckle at your post....I do the same thing, throw it out, My husband was polish so he could only tolerate so much kid clutter, but all my kids got their fathers polish gene and keep immaculate homes...well, 4 out of the 5. Not too bad a ratio...80% one is a casual housekeeper but definately not a hoarder...Its scary....I just can imagine the odor......The smell must travel to neighbors homes...


18 posted on 12/29/2009 10:27:23 PM PST by goat granny
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To: goat granny

Just to follow up on the Hoarders discussion and to have a little joke with your name, did you see the one where the woman’s goats had eaten into her house??? Then they’d go in the room and drag stuff out to eat! Unbelievable!

I watch Hoarders every week. Man oh Manischewitz, it’s hard to imagine grown up living that way, much less forcing their kids to live in the filth with them.


19 posted on 12/29/2009 11:05:46 PM PST by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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LOL I missed the one with the goats,will have to keep an eye out for it on reruns.......thanks


20 posted on 12/30/2009 12:19:34 AM PST by goat granny
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