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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Andrea Cavallier

Ohio parents abused their five adopted special needs children ‘worse than prisoners of war’

Charles Edmonson and his wife Matthew Edmonson were jailed for abusing their five special needs children - (Clermont County County Sheriff’s Office)

An Ohio couple who tortured their five adopted special needs sons, treating them “worse than prisoners of war in their own home” in “dungeon”-like conditions have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison.

Charles Edmonson, 64, and his wife, Matthew Edmonson, 50, were each charged in July with five felony counts of endangering children.

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