Confidential FACS report show repeated visits to 'house of horrors' mum before her arrest

By Shannon Tonkin
Updated May 18 2018 - 7:52am, first published 6:05am
Disgusting conditions: Police say they were overwhelmed by the presence of faeces and urine stains, including on this couch in the loungeroom and (inset) in the children's bedrooms.
Disgusting conditions: Police say they were overwhelmed by the presence of faeces and urine stains, including on this couch in the loungeroom and (inset) in the children's bedrooms.

A confidential Family and Community Services report into the family at the centre of Wollongong’s ‘house of horrors’ child neglect case has revealed department caseworkers tried in vain to help the mother in the months leading up to an intervention by police.

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