The incident that took place in Houston, USA, horrified even the police.
A mother left her three children in a house with the decomposing remains of their 8-year-old brother.
The remains of an 8-year-old boy, covered with a blue blanket, lay in an apartment for a year, People reports.
After the boy's death in late 2020, the child's father hid the body and moved to another apartment with his mother, while the murdered child's siblings remained in the house.
In October 2021, the eldest child told police that his brother's body had been decomposing in one of the rooms of their house for a year.
The police officers who arrived did indeed find the remains of a boy in the house. They were horrified by the conditions in which the minors were kept.
According to police, there was no furniture in the house and no beds to sleep in.
There was a dirty carpet on the floor, and due to the unsanitary conditions, cockroaches ran around the rooms and flies flew around.
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