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The bodies of three infants have been found in a filthy house where four other children were removed by authorities last month, a Massachusetts prosecutor has said.
Worcester county district attorney Joseph Early Jr said authorities did not know when or how the babies died and no one had been arrested in connection with their deaths. He said the state medical examiner would investigate.
Early said examination of the remains and the house in Blackstone had been complicated by what he called “deplorable” conditions, with flies, bugs, vermin and “piles of used diapers as much as a foot or two high”.
Early said four other children ranging age from six months old to 13 years were removed from the house in August after a neighbour who discovered their living conditions notified police.
The state children protection authorities said on Thursday that the children who had been living at the home were in state custody.
Early said it was too soon to know if charges would be filed in the infants’ deaths, or against whom, because investigators were not sure who was living at the home when they died.
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