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Six relatives face neglect charges after drug raid
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CHICAGO — Police barged into an inner-city apartment before dawn yesterday looking for drugs. What they found was far more horrific.
"The only remorse they showed was they didn't want to be arrested," said Maggie Gutierrez, one of the first police officers on the scene.
In four rooms littered with feces and crawling with cockroaches were 19 children — the youngest 6 months old, the oldest 14. Five children slept in their underwear on a bare floor, and others fought with a German shepherd dog for food scattered on the floor.
Six adult relatives of the children — four mothers, a father and an uncle — were charged with contributing to child neglect, a misdemeanor. Another mother of some of the children was in custody but had not been charged.
Police raided the West Side apartment after watching suspected drug dealers do business outside the building through the night. Instead of drugs they found, as one officer put it, "babies everywhere."
"The apartment was cold, the apartment was filthy," police officer Linda Burns said. "I'm talking feces, garbage, food on the floor. I don't even know how to describe it—it was just filth."
"The they were eating food off the floor out bowls the dogs were eating out of," said police Lt. Fred Bosse. "The remaining food that was on the floor was being fought over by the dogs and the children."
One of the children, a 4-year-old, was hospitalized in fair condition; the others were taken to a shelter for neglected children after being examined at hospitals. One child had cigarette burns, cuts and bruises, raising the possibility of abuse, police Sgt. Russell Mueller said.
Three of the families had been investigated previously by the state's child-welfare agency, the Department of Children and Family Services, said representative Scott Hamilton. Inves
tigators looked into drug problems; inadequate supervision of the children and, in one family's case, possible child abuse.
The case was the latest in a series of appalling child-neglect and abandon cases in Chicago. Earlier this week, a mother was charged with murder in the starvation death of her 3-month-old daughter. Last month, three children under the age of 6 were found in their family's apartment after being left alone for three days.
The earlier cases have brought a barrage of criticism for the state agency, whose workers have been accused of repeatedly failing to intervene upon finding abused children. In the latest case, Mayor Richard Daley questioned why no one else reported conditions in the apartment.
"You wonder first of all about their parents," Daley said. "But how about their neighbors, how about family members? Where are they? Why didn't they come forward a week ago or two weeks ago?"
A child-abuse expert said poverty, ignorance, alcohol and illegal drugs all played some part in most such cases.
"There are chronic problems among people who grow up in violent, poor disintegrating communities," said Anne Cohn Donnelly, executive director of the Chicago-based National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse. "Young parents who grew up in these situations never really learned that there is an alternative way to behave."
As many as five families and their children lived in the first-floor apartment where the youngsters were found, neighbors said, and drug dealers were a common sight in the area.
"I heard screaming — like the kids being bad," said Tony Jackson, who lives upstairs. "But I didn't hear nobody whipping nobody."
Six hours after police whisked the children to shelters and hospitals, neighbors milled outside the building. A front window was broken, and a cold wind whipped orange blankets covering the windows.
Inside the apartment, furnished only with two mattresses and a few tables, dirty clothes and diapers lay in haphazard pillars. A rusted stove with a broken door stood in the kitchen across from the mold-stained sink.
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