Inside house of horrors where ‘10 kids were abused including filthy toddler shackled in chair who'd NEVER touched floor’ | The Sun

CHILLING details have emerged of an alleged "house of horrors" where a two year old child was reportedly found shackled to his highchair.

Police have launched an investigation into the "abuse" suffered by 10 siblings in Noyelles-sous-Lens, in France's northern Pas-de-Calais after one of the oldest children, 21, alerted the authorities on August 30.

Two children, two and five, were reportedly found sleeping tied up to their highchairs with a harness and other ropes around their bodies "in a deplorable state of hygiene".

The oldest children – 16, 21 and 24 – told officers their young siblings were tied up "23h/24" because "the parents were too lazy to care for them".

The youngest had "never stepped foot on the floor", public prosecutor of Béthune, Thierry Dran, told La Voix du Nord.

The toddler is reportedly presenting serious psychomotor delay.

The father, 44 and the mother, 40, have been arrested
for violence against minors and a threat to the hygiene or health of the children.

According to sources close to the case, the children – ranging four months to 24 years old – had allegedly been living a terrible ordeal for years.

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The public prosecutor described the alleged abuses as deplorable: the children were reportedly deprived of liberty, grew up in unsanitary conditions and were allegedly victims of extensive brutality.

According to TF1 Info, the children were allegedly regularly insulted, hit and thrown to the ground when they asked for food or refused to go to school.

Although they were all registered at local schools, the children have been described as being often absent.

A neighbour, identified only as Peggy, said her daughter went to school with the couple's daughter, adding she often had lice.

“What is reproached is above all the total lack of hygiene, and serious educational deficiencies”, or “the fact of not having taken care of their children in a normal way”, Dran explained.

The children, however, show “no signs of serious abuse that would have caused scarring”, the prosecutor added.

Police said the mother explained the children were tied up to stop the five-year-old from causing mischief, and to protect the toddler, because the mum claimed to have cancer.

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One of the children's aunt, who has not been identified, told RTL the children were tied up to their highchairs "simply so that they wouldn't fall off the chair".

The mum is a stay-at-home mum while her husband works, cash-in-hand, as a mechanic and a second hand car parts sales.

The parents were followed by social services.

Seven minor children have been provisionally placed in the care of the State, but had to be washed before they could be moved to social centres.

On Saturday, the parents, who are presumed innocent, have recognised the charges against them and appeared at the tribunal where they were placed under court supervision.

The couple is also banned from seeing their children.

The Mayor of Noyelles-sous-Lens, Alain Roger told La Voix du Nord: "For us, it's not a closed family. We see them regularly, the children go to kindergarten and primary school and we see the mother driving them to school. 

"They are not registered with the CCAS [Municipal Centres for Social Action] of the municipality. It gives goose bumps to hear the fate of these children.”

A children's association "La Voix de l'Enfant" is filing a civil suit.

The parents have up to two years in prison and up to €30,000 (£25,890) in fines.

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Their trial has been set for January 24, 2023.

The investigation continues.

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