Police: 7 children found living in deplorable conditions, left home alone for hours

BEAVER COUNTY, Pa. — Rochester Borough police have arrested two mothers, condemned their Beaver County home and taken their seven children.

Officers said the children, who range in age from 2 to 11 years old, were living in a house of filth and left home alone for 13 hours with no food or water.

PHOTOS: 7 children found living in deplorable conditions

The children were found in the street without shoes or socks, and some were only wearing dirty diapers.

The doors on the East Washington Street house are locked, but police showed only Channel 11 what it looks like on the inside. Officers found a cluttered kitchen, filth, garbage and feces strewn throughout the apartments where twin sisters lived with their seven children.

“There was no food, there was no water or milk,” said Sgt. Dawn Shane. “These kids were living in filth.”

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Police say when moms Kaitlyn Fritzley and Kayla Adkins went to work, they would routinely put their kids to bed at 8 p.m. and leave them home alone. Police believe the children were left home alone for 13 hours straight.

Officers say it was neighbors who saw the children running the streets Saturday morning and called 911.

"I saw them; they didn't have nothing on, no shoes, no socks," said neighbor Anna Robinson. "That's just not right with no supervision."

Police say both women admitted to leaving the kids home alone, not having food in the house and being too tired to clean.

“They didn’t think that it was that big of a deal that it was wrong,” Shane said.

Both women are charged with child endangerment and remain in the Beaver County Jail.

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