Parents who neglected five children under 12 and forcing them to live in squalor have been jailed. A court heard the children lived at a home where there was "mouldy food, glass on the floor, only four beds for seven people."
Authorities were alerted and the alarm was raised after discovering a "vile smell" as well as human waste smeared on walls close to where toothbrushes were kept. To make matters worse, Hull Crown Court was told that the parents openly smoked cannabis in front of the children, a girl had been assaulted and a boy was banned from using the toilet at night so had to urinate in his room.
The mother now had yet another child - her sixth - but he was likely to be removed from her indefinitely, the court was told, reports HullLive. Lee Carnell, 32, and his ex-girlfriend, Sarah Lamb, 33, of Hull, admitted a series of child cruelty offences involving five children - four girls and a boy. Lamb was the mother of all of them and Carnell was the father of the youngest three.
