Mother gets day in court over 'House of Horrors'

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BY ANDREW STRICKLER AND JOHN VALENTI - NEWSDAY.COM


The husband and wife at the center of a custody battle in the Lindenhurst "House of Horrors" case are due in Family Court Friday in Central Islip, one day after acting Family Court Judge Mark Cohen ordered the family to report to Child Protective Services.

Earlier this week, Raymond Young Jr., in the middle of a custody battle with his estranged wife, Deborah, over their three daughters, ages 10, 12 and 14, went to the modest white two-story home owned by him and his father -- and found the house filled with feces, bottles of urine, piles of used toilet tissue and other filth. The scene was dubbed the "House of Horrors."

The Youngs have been involved in a divorce battle since 2003, according to attorneys.

Deborah Young was ordered to court Friday after her husband asked Judge Cohen to have the children removed from her custody Thursday.

"Food, clothing, shelter, heat -- I just want to make sure they're safe," Raymond Young Jr., 42, said Thursday.

Young said he discovered the condition of the house Tuesday when he went there to check the heating system. He and his father own the house, located on Nevada Street, where a strong odor of urine was noticeable outside.

Joseph Quatela, one of two attorneys representing Raymond Young Jr., said Thursday his client hoped to gain custody of the children but was prepared to accept a possible decision to put the three girls into the temporary custody of a third party. The court Thursday ordered Deborah Young to return from upstate Windham, where she and her children were visiting her parents this week.

Deborah Young and her father told Newsday on Tuesday that her husband and his relatives wanted to discredit her -- and suggested Raymond Young Jr. may have wrecked the house. Both Quatela and Raymond Young denied the suggestions that he might have placed hundreds of bottles of urine and piles of soiled toilet tissue in the house to discredit his wife in the custody battle.

"It's absolutely absurd," he said.

The court-appointed attorney who represents the Young children in the divorce, Joy Jorgensen of Babylon, declined to answer questions Thursday.

"I'm really not in a position to be able to discuss the case with you," she said.

Hours after the judge's order Thursday, a locksmith arrived at the house to padlock the doors and the garage.



I was watching noon News today. They are still in the court and waiting to hear from the judge to give the full custody to the father. I will let you know the result.
 
hmmm :hmm:....Could it be that the toliet may be blocked up? :ugh: that should explains the reason of seeing used toliet papers piles up and bottles of urines, and I also noticed that he and his father owns the house? ...I think there's a lot more than what it's being said here...
 
No sweetie. Thats all it said. I saw it on TV. They showed the house with alot of feces all over place. The cat litter were full of feces. The water bottles were filled with urine. Its so gross..

I will post the pictures
 
Really? and what did the mother said about all of this?....and the reason for the house to be in this condition?...

Sorry I'm not fimilar with this story, and I don't know anything about this case, care to fill me in more of this please?...
 
:jaw: OMG This definitely not a way of raising her children in, this is horrible!!! What the heck was the mother thinking??...sheesh
 
Angel said:
:jaw: OMG This definitely not a way of raising her children in, this is horrible!!! What the heck was the mother thinking??...sheesh
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Yea, I was like oh my god!!! That's soo gross!! Glad the father had to check the heating system while the mother and the kids gone to see the family in upstate NY, otherwise it will get worse if never found it. ugh
 
Yeah, it looks like huge twister went through the house....How is the children able to walk and play inside house? looking like THIS?...
 
I dont know!! Why didn't the neighbor noticed the odd odor outside? Why didn't the kids inform the school abt it? I bet the kids were afraid of their mother if the kids report to school or friends. Dont u think? Angel
 
Oh my God... This is unhealthy environment for the children upbringing. They doesn´t deserve to live like this... Oh my dear... :cold:
 
Pretty much what my condo looked like after the Judge ordered her out.

Richard
 
It's hard to tell who is the responsible for the mess. It's usually "He said,She said". So, the husband owns the house. Did he let her live in that house or was he just making it up? The story don't make sense to me. I saw the pictures and it's nasty!
 
mecooncat said:
It's hard to tell who is the responsible for the mess. It's usually "He said,She said". So, the husband owns the house. Did he let her live in that house or was he just making it up? The story don't make sense to me. I saw the pictures and it's nasty!
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Well, I could say I blame on the mother because she made the mess. I have a feeling that the father let the mother and the girls live in that house since the girls are his. Maybe the mother couldnt afford to buy or rent a home for her and the girls. So, possible for the father let them to live there. BUT like I said I will get more information and post it in here.
 
UPDATE!!!

L.I. Children Living In Filth Placed In Care Of Social Services

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. -- Three children who lived with their mother in a house where police found stomach-churning squalor were placed in the temporary custody of social services on Friday.

The children and their parents also were ordered by state Supreme Court Justice Mark Cohen to undergo psychological evaluations. The judge ordered the children placed in a "therapeutic" foster home, where they can be evaluated and receive care from trained personnel, a spokesman for social services said.

Police who went to the Lindenhurst home this week encountered dozens of urine-filled bottles strewn amid animal feces, soiled toilet paper and trash piled several feet high.

The discovery at the white, two-story Cape Cod-style house was made after authorities were summoned by the children's father, who has been banned by a court order from seeing his children since 2004 amid allegations of sexual abuse in a bitter divorce with their mother.

"The stench would drop you to your knees," the estranged husband, Raymond Young Jr., told reporters Wednesday after leading them on a tour of the home he once shared with Deborah Young and their daughters, ages 10, 12 and 14.

"No one can live in the house," attorney Joseph Quatela said. "There are hundreds of bottles filled with urine, there are stacks 4 or 5 foot high of used toilet paper."

The brief court hearing in state Supreme Court on Friday was attended by both parents and grandparents. Child support payments, which Raymond Young had been paying, were temporarily suspended while the court decides with whom the children should live.

Outside court, Deborah Young, who was professionally dressed, covered her face with a scarf and declined to speak to reporters. Her attorney, Maureen Glass, also refused to speak with reporters after the proceeding.

While conceding that "I'm sure they love their mother," Raymond Young said, "I would rather have them go to foster care."

The parties are due back in court on March 6.

Quatela said the Youngs' divorce proceedings began in 2003. Since then, Young has lost visitation rights, and has had to refute accusations that he sexually abused the children, the attorney said. Raymond Young's parents, whom Quatela described as "pillars of their community," also were accused of sexually abusing the girls, but the attorney said an investigation determined those claims to be unfounded.

Deborah Young told Newsday previously that that her estranged husband had no right to be inside the house.

Asked about the filth claims, she said, "Well, I don't know how much of any mess might be mine and how much they did. They've been coming in and out of the house through the basement."

Raymond Young, a diesel mechanic at his father's heating oil delivery business, was paying for oil deliveries to the house as part of his divorce agreement.

Quatela said Young went to the house after receiving reports that his ex-wife and children were sitting in a vehicle in their driveway -- sometimes for hours at a time, leading him to suspect there was no heat in the home.

Social services spokesman Dennis Nowak said about 40 to 45 children a month are removed from Suffolk County homes and placed in foster care when it is determined they could be in danger.
 
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