The Five CORDLE Children - 7 yo-17 Months - Prestonsburg KY

This is a child abuse case that a police department says is the worst it has ever seen.
The reports include young children locked up, covered in blisters and rashes and filth.
The story comes from Prestonsburg, Ky., where the good news is five kids are on the road to recovery.
Their maternal grandmother says just getting the little ones treated and cleaned up and in a healthy
environment is working wonders. Police say if being smothered in filth
wasn't bad enough, pain pills were lying around the apartment like candy.
Officer Zak Clark says he went to Shawn and Amber Cordle's Prestonsburg apartment
on Sept. 2 after the 39-year-old father called for an ambulance.
“He was holding a child outside with blisters on its
mouth and hands," Clark said. "Inside there was human and animal feces
everywhere -- an empty crib full of feces. It's the worst thing I've seen in a long time.”
Clark says besides extreme neglect and filth, the
Cordle's five children --- ranging in ages from 17 months to 7 years old
-- were also surrounded by cats and rotten food. Prescription
painkillers also were lying around just about everywhere.
"You mean like OxyContin?" WSAZ.com's Randy Yohe asked Clark.
"There was liquid hydrocodone and other pills strewn all over,” Clark said.
Clark says when he went upstairs, he found two special needs children locked up in horrific conditions.
“There were two special need kids in the same bed,"
he said. "They were covered in human and animal feces. The parents said
they did that so the children could not escape.”
The five children were taken to Highlawn Regional Medical Center.
A manager at the apartment complex says they saw no trouble
in the Cordle couple's apartment when they inspected it.
The couple's preliminary hearing was delayed when the
judge said the Cordles showed antagonism between them, now requiring
separate court-appointed attorneys.
They face felony abuse, endangerment and imprisonment charges.
Both of the Cordles are jailed on $25,000 bond each.
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