article_snippet: The home: Police and neighbors described the family's home as being covered in feces with such a pungent smell it 'takes your breath away' '
article_snippet: Police in North Carolina have released more information on the shocking case - including how the smell of the feces-covered house would 'take your breath away' - as neighbors come forward describing how the boy would beg them for food and, at one point, was 'purple with cold' and 'looked pitiful'.
article_snippet: Another neighbor, who asked not to be named, said a boy appeared on her porch in May 2012 'purple with cold, with no coat, saying a boy was hungry'. '
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  Police say family lived in a feces covered house that would, 'take your breath away'
  