Ricky Vinyard walked through the familys trailer at the time, and reading reports from California this week reminded him of what he saw.
It was waist-deep in filth. There were dead dogs and cats in there, he said, the smell rancid.
He found two Chihuahuas that had survived by eating waste from a mound of soiled diapers. The familys Ford F-150 truck was heaped with the dirty diapers and empty Vienna sausage cans, he said, It seemed like thats all they ate.
The couple had claimed to home-school their children, and the feces-littered living room had the trappings of a makeshift classroom, he said, including eight small desks, a chalkboard, alphabet and number signs stapled to the wall.
As he moved from room to room, he noticed something odd: Everything had locks on it: The closet had locks, the toy chest, the refrigerator.
There were no beds, just mattresses, he said, and There wasnt a place in that house that wasnt filthy.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-na-perris-texas-20180120-story.html
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