{"id":17185,"date":"2022-05-24T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=17185"},"modified":"2022-05-24T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:57:27","slug":"rubbish-piles-and-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/24\/rubbish-piles-and-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside a filthy flat where four children were raised among &#8220;rubbish piles and rats.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man and woman have been arrested in connection with the &#8220;horrendous&#8221; condition of an apartment in which four children were residing, with mountains of trash and rats darting around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the unpleasant odour emanating from the flat in Bexar County, Texas, police were called.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar stated that the smell was so awful that 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