Siders' 16 Kids: Who Was Ever Supposed To Find Them?

Ask the simple question and the whole thing falls apart. Whose job was it to find the Siders children?

Sixteen kids were living in a house in Vinton County, Ohio. Not one school district had a record of them. Not one neighbor knew they were there. Not one caseworker had ever knocked on that door. And when officers finally walked in, they were not there for the children. They were serving a warrant on an entirely unrelated matter, and the Attorney General has said nobody had any expectation that sixteen kids were inside.

The oldest is eighteen. Investigators said she could not write her own name. The state issued her a birth certificate the year she was born and put it in a drawer, where it has been sitting ever since.

Tony Brueski connects that to a rowhouse in Southeast Washington, D.C., where four girls were found dead by U.S. Marshals serving an eviction notice, in a city whose entire child welfare system had been running under a federal judge for nineteen years at the time. His point is not that Ohio was asleep. His point is that even constant oversight did not find those four girls, so nobody should imagine oversight alone would have found the Siders kids. Then he follows the money, and finds a federal program that pays a state ten billion dollars a year the moment it removes a child, and pays nothing to anyone who goes looking for one.

Four adults have pleaded not guilty to sixteen counts each of second-degree felony child endangering. No grand jury has returned an indictment.

Nobody hid these children from a system that was searching for them. There was no search.

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