Five Arrested After Seven Children Found in Mastic Filth Pad

2009_06_mastic squalor.jpg A complaint to child services led police to a home in Mastic Beach where seven children were being raised in conditions of utter squalor and prompted the arrests five adults who lived there. Newsday reports that the house had no heat along with "no running water, feces on the floor and bottles of urine around the house, with rotted food in the refrigerator." On top of that, "appliances and lights that were being run off a generator, a television was being charged with a car battery and cooking was being done indoors with propane." The seven children ranged from ages two to thirteen and are now in foster care with an order of protection from their former caretakers. One of the five adults was also charged with animal cruelty after the SPCA discovered two dogs and 14 cats. One neighbor told the paper that she refused to open windows in the side of her house that faced their home. A Suffolk County official said redundantly, "It was obviously a health hazard."

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By Billy Parker in News on June 13, 2009 10:53 AM

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Amanda Harletsch

People should APPLY for the right of procreation, AND THEN PAY TAXES OVER EACH KID.

rcltrh

"no heat along with "no running water, feces on the floor and bottles of urine around the house, with rotted food in the refrigerator." On top of that, "appliances and lights that were being run off a generator, a television was being charged with a car battery and cooking was being done indoors with propane."

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resa

Aren't these two different houses - the one with the battery operated tv and the one with the neglected kids?

fmfats

To make things even worse, the tv stopped working yesterday afternoon.

the3rdbridge

Come to Mastic, LI, where first and second world living conditions are optional!

amy

actually, mastic is a fairly clean town. every single town has their problems and if it's not with the cleanliness, it's the social problems. don't comment the article with a smart remark similar to some of the ignorant users up there.

Willy Nilly

Very carefully.

Rocknrope

Ghetto-FAAAAABulous!

Snoopy

How do you charge a television with a car battery?

militza

wonder what kind of punishment they'll get, seeing as they were able to tolerate such disgusting conditions,

jail will probably be like the Waldorf Astoria to them.

r1b2

Suffolk County: The deep South of the North.

Joe Rosewater

Except for the fact that the Hamptons are in Suffolk County. And it's not like there isn't squalor in Nassau, or upstate New York, or Jersey, or even Manhattan. Or anywhere else in the "north." Unless your comment is an attempt to troll, your generalization is a big fat failure.