Las Vegas Sun

May 19, 2024

Lorinda Bailey enters a courtroom at the Denver Justice Center on the day of the first hearing in her felony child abuse case, in Denver, Tuesday, Oct. 8 2013. Bailey, 35, who is free on bond, and Wayne Sperling, 66, who is in custody, are charged with child abuse for allegedly starving their four sons, ages 2, 4, 5 and 6, and keeping them in an apartment full of feces and flies.All four have been placed in protective care and have undergone hospital exams that found that they could only communicate in grunts, were malnourished and were not toilet trained, according to an arrest affidavit.

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Lorinda Bailey enters a courtroom at the Denver Justice Center on the day of the first hearing in her felony child abuse case, in Denver, Tuesday, Oct. 8 2013. Bailey, 35, who is free on bond, and Wayne Sperling, 66, who is in custody, are charged with child abuse for allegedly starving their four sons, ages 2, 4, 5 and 6, and keeping them in an apartment full of feces and flies.All four have been placed in protective care and have undergone hospital exams that found that they could only communicate in grunts, were malnourished and were not toilet trained, according to an arrest affidavit.