Gary Siders II, who was arrested amid a raid to remove his 16 children from his home on June 30, is requesting a competency evaluation
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- The attorney for Gary Siders II is requesting that his client receive a mental competency evaluation
- In a July 24 motion, Gary II’s attorney also asked that he be allowed to file all documents detailing his client’s “highly sensitive mental-health information” and “psychiatric condition” under seal
- Gary II, 36, was arrested on June 30 after authorities said he and three adults were found living in squalor with 16 children, some of whom were “almost like feral animals”
New details are being revealed about the father of 16 children who were found confined to a single room inside an Ohio “House of Horrors.”
An attorney for Gary Siders II has filed a motion with the court suggesting that his client may not be fit to stand trial.
“Defendant’s competency to stand trial has been raised, and the documents at issue concern Defendant’s present mental condition and request for psychiatric examination,” attorney R. Lee Roberts wrote in a motion for leave filed on July 24 and obtained by PEOPLE…