(NewsNation) — All four adult family members charged in Ohio’s “House of Horrors” child endangerment case now want to know if they’re mentally fit to stand trial, and one reporter following the case says that may be because the family doesn’t think it did anything wrong.
“I believe these people have no idea what they did wrong besides having an unsanitary home,” Los Angeles Magazine reporter Lauren Conlin said on “Jesse Weber Live.” “These people don’t think they did anything. There is no defense.”
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Elizabeth Siders became the fourth and final defendant to request a competency evaluation, following her husband, Gary Siders Jr.; his mother, Christina “Lynn” Siders; and his father, Gary Siders Sr. Elizabeth’s filing also seeks an insanity evaluation.
Siders Sr., the first to seek an evaluation, was hospitalized and has since been released on $300,000 bond with a GPS monitor.
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The family was arrested June 30 after authorities said they found 16 kids, ages 18 months to 18 years, living in unsafe, unsanitary conditions inside the family’s Hamden, Ohio, home.
All four face 16 felony counts of child endangerment and have pleaded not guilty.
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Conlin also pointed to Christina Siders’ bond request as evidence for her theory, saying the grandma’s filing amounted to an argument that she was only guilty of taking in her grandchildren and caring for her husband and son’s family…