The parents of two of grossly obese young girls have been arrested on suspicion of ***** ***** after the youngsters were found living in squalid conditions.
The five-year-old ***** weighs 12 stone and her four-year-old ****** six stone.
The normal weights for girls that age are just under three stone for a five-year-old and two-and-a-half stone for a ***** aged four.
The older girl's hair was found to be matted with head lice and she was so overweight that she cannot walk 10ft without wheezing.
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James and Anne Cordona were arrested after their *********, aged five and four, were found weighing 12 and six stone respectively. The sisters from the U.S. state of Georgia have been taken into care. The ******** were discovered living in the filthy, insect and mould-infested property.
Her ****** was found lying on a filthy mattress with no bedding, wearing only a soiled nappy and sucking from a baby's bottle.
The arrest warrant for parents James and Anne Cordona said that the bottom of the younger *****'s feet were black from dirt and she was also covered in insect bites. Both face charges of ***** cruelty.
The youngsters were discovered living in the ******'s filthy, insect and mould-infested house in Marietta, Georgia.
Police said the property smelt of ***** and was 'infested with roaches, fleas, cobwebs and gigantic spiders'.
****** welfare officers found 18 ******* living inside the house and removed five dogs, two cats, two turtles and nine birds
However Mrs Cordona protested her innocence, telling local news station CBS Atlanta: 'I'm not guilty of anything.'
She was released on bail while her husband James Cordona remains in jail with a $5,000 (£3,000) bond.
Neither ***** was enrolled in school and both are now in care.
The couple were arrested after police responded to reports of a domestic dispute between two brothers at the home.
'The thing that bothered me most is the lack of clothes,' neighbour Larry Willis told local news.
'They didn't wear normal *** clothes. They were often dressed in robe-type clothes or diapers.'
'Quite often they would be outside playing in their diapers and barefooted,' Mr Willis added.
'And I don't remember seeing them in shoes, even in the cooler weather.'
