WPXI reports that child services had to step in and remove six children who were living amid filth and animal waste in a home in Uniontown, PA. (USA).
The reason for the neglect has been attributed to the mother being so addicted to online video games that she had not cleaned the house for years.
Speaking to Channel 11, the children’s stepfather, James Boord, claimed that online games were the reason his wife, Elizabeth Ruffner, had completely stopped looking after her kids, all younger than 11.
“I’ve been working, and I couldn’t have been home to take care of them. I cleaned them. I gave them their baths at night before school. I cleaned up after them. It just became too much for me to do,” said Boord.
“There was no food in the cupboards. The bedrooms had mattresses on the floor with no sheets or pillows. It looked like they got these mattresses out of the junk yard. They were just filthy,” said Mike Garrow Sr. of Uniontown police.
Ruffner would not come outside to talk to Channel 11 when a news team visited her home. Whether or not this was due to her being busy with a WoW raid remains unconfirmed.
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