Exclusive | Inside the Ohio house of horrors where 16 feral kids were rescued stomach-churning pics reveal filthy, inhumane conditions

The Ohio house of horrors where 16 “almost feral” children lived for years — allegedly locked away in a 12-by-12 room by their parents and grandparents — is a deplorable mess that reeks of cate urine.The disturbing photos exclusively obtained by The Post show mountains of trash piled up inside the front room of the roughly 1,850-square-foot house in rural Hamden.The only signs of decor or furniture appear to be a bizarre, framed painting of a tiger and a stained chest freezer. Discarded boxes, moldy clothes and crumpled plastic containers are scattered across the filthy floor – along with a single Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey “Party Bucket.” The walls, which were once white, are dingy gray.In the basement, a dining room chair and a bicycle wheel are the only distinguishable items among a gigantic mound of trash that consumes half of the room. Several more debris heaps surround the exterior of the five-bedroom, one-bathroom house, where only a few children’s items – including a small, broken bicycle and a copy of the kids book, “Jonathan James and the Whatif Monster” – hint at the crowd of children allegedly kept there for the past four years. Two run-down vehicles — a silver sedan and a blue Chevy pickup truck — still parked outside the home appeared just as filthy, with images capturing dozens of cigarette butts, candy wrappers and other garbage littered across their interiors. The photos show police tape still surrounding the property, more than a week after cops went to the house to carry out a warrant for an unrelated investigation on June 30.What the found inside has shocked the conscience of Ohio — 16 children living in the feces-filled room, according to Vinton County officials. The victims, aged 1 to 18, were mostly confined to the cramped space for at least the past four years, according to authorities, who have described the grisly scene as “deplorable” and “third-world” — and even said local livestock have better...