GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – Two young children are in critical condition due to what authorities called “one of the most horrific cases of neglect towards children.”
According to Mauldin Police Department, at around 1:14 p.m. Sunday, officers were called to a residence on Cranberry Hill Circle after a three-year-old girl was reported to be found without a pulse.
Police said the girl, along with a one-year-old child also living at the residence were emaciated from malnutrition and severely underweight. Police also said the children showed visible wounds from lack of proper hygiene and care, and the residence had “an overwhelming presence of uncleaned human excrement.”…