Sixteen children lived inside one house in Hamden, Ohio, and the state that was supposed to know they existed had no idea. Deputies in Vinton County weren't looking for kids when they showed up. They were serving a warrant on something else entirely, and Ohio's Attorney General has said flat out that nobody expected to find children behind that door. The school district had no record of any of them. The neighbors didn't know they existed. The oldest is eighteen. Investigators say she couldn't write her own name, which means Ohio issued her a birth certificate the year she was born, filed it away, and never once checked on the child attached to it. Then there's everybody outside the house. Store employees watched this family for years — the clothes, the hygiene, the strange after-hours shopping runs — and only found the words for it once the arrests made headlines. A neighbor seventy feet away swears he never saw a child in six years, and he might genuinely believe that. A psychotherapist walks through exactly what the brain does when noticing something would demand something of you, and why that machinery runs in all of us. Four adults now face sixteen counts each of second-degree felony child endangering. All four have pleaded not guilty. No indictment has been returned. Tony Brueski lays out a mandated-reporter system with plenty of duty and almost no consequence for ignoring it, a funding structure that pays a state the moment it takes a child and pays nobody to go find one, and a comparison case in Washington, D.C. that should make every agency involved here uncomfortable. Sixteen kids were found by accident. Somebody was supposed to be looking before that. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SidersCase #VintonCounty #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #OhioCrimeNews #ChildWelfareFailure #MandatedReporter #TrueCrimeCommunity #TrueCrimePodcast #CrimeStories