When they arrived at the Swansea home, officers were disgusted to find it filled with dirty nappies and crawling with flies, a court heard.
Swansea Crown Court was told that the kids would regularly turn up for school hungry and unwashed, occasionally with head lice. Judge Peter Heywood said the "squalid" home was not fit for human habitation, especially not for young kids. Social services had been working with the mum to try support her before police got involved last year.
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