Pa. parents charged after seven children found living in deplorable conditions and removed from home

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4. This happened in my community. Couple of miles away from my home.

Here is how I see it. Yes the parents are to be blame. There must be punishment and the parents need EDUCATION.
These seven children never went to school. How can that be? One child was 16. They were filthy and had matted hair that had to be cut off. One child had maggots in her hair. They did not have enough to eat. We are not a third world country. This happened right here in southeastern Pa. We are a wealthy community.

Here is the question. How could our child services systems fail this bad. Why didn't the Pennridge school district know these 7 kids were not in school. Why didn't the neighbors in this small community question what was going on. I would think, but don't know, that the family was on public assistance. No one checked on the conditions of the family?

Blaming only the parents is not the way forward.

Also understand that the police in this nation are under a lot of pressure for their actions. This department gets to say: Hey we saved 7 children this month. They could have just walked away and minded their own business.